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mac's and bad addresses

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JimmyZ1

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Mar 31, 2004
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Does anyone know why my windows 2003 DHCP server has a bunch of bad addresses, mostly related to my Macintosh machines.
 
DHCP has an address pool. Before it attempts to give out what it considers an unused address, it checks to make sure the address is not already in use. If DHCP finds the address in use, it marks it as a BAD_ADDRESS. I would assume that this is happening as you have computers on the network that have been configured with static IP addresses that are part of your DHCP pool...
 
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