Re: DHCP issuing 2 or more to clients/servers

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"John Czahor" <JohnCzahor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:692AB0EA-085F-413F-8DC5-4CEDE7F8E8E8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Just to let you know what I did, I found the RRAS service started and once I
turned it off, it released the xtra IPs. It looks like the default is the
RRAS service is active even if it is unconfigured and pull extra IP from the
DHCP server. The XP/Vista Workstations are setup the same way. I would
consider this to be a bad desing flaw as on a network you would have to
either remember to only allow half of pcs per number of IPs allocated to the
subnet or disable the RASS service on every single PC/server on the subnet.

John

By default, the service is disabled, unless it is configured using the RRAS console. So IMHO, I believe it was configured at one point, but for some reason when it was turned off using the console, the service continued to come up automatically, otherwise this wouldn't have occured in a default installation.

By default, yes, when RRAS is configured and started, it will pull blocks of 10 IPs at a time as needed for RRAS clients.

If you are saying that you are finding your machines to have RRAS service set to automatic and are started, is there some sort of GPO or other policy or app that is installed that is turning it on?

Are your machines installed based on an image that the RRAS service was set to automatic?

Like I said, by default it is disabled on servers and desktop operating systems with fresh installs.

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