Re: Is there any ways to config the DHCP client in WinXP?

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From: GiGi (qiqi_at_cuhk.edu.hk)
Date: 12/09/04 

Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 11:58:52 +0800

Sorry for making you confused. The situation is, in my network
environment, there is an official DHCP server which provids IP
address, say, 10.0.*.*, but somebody else has set up a "fake" DHCP
server on his PC and it provides IP address of 192.168.*.*, and it is
faster than the official DHCP server. So you can imagine that I cannot
get the right IP I want.

There is such kind of DHCP client configurer in Linux which allows us
to assign a DHCP server so that we can only accept its DHCP reply, and
also allows us to set a delay when we begin to accept DHCP reply.

Does any MICROSOFTer care about this problem? Or any third-party
software can solve this?

Many thanks!

Richard G. Harper wrote:

> Either I'm misunderstanding your question or you have a very badly
> configured network. Are you saying that you have two or more DHCP servers
> in the same address range? That's a very poor design and prone to real
> problems, if true.
>
> The only way to control what DHCP server hands out addresses to which
> clients is to use routing, and to put the preferred PCs behind a router that
> addresses the server/range you want them to get addresses from. There is no
> way to configure WinXP (or any other Windows operating system) to do
> otherwise, as DHCP is a broadcast request and the first server to respond
> gets to hand out the address.
>

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