In this specific case, you should file a problem with the ATS Help Desk,
specifying the IP address which is in conflict. Network Management
can, in the short term, remove that address from the pool of addresses
available for assignment.
In the medium term, ATS would want to run down the presumed rogue
machine.
-- Ken Josenhans
Network Management
Academic Technology Services
Michigan State University
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517-432-2935
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 04:06:01PM -0500, David McFarlane wrote:
> How can we force the campus DHCP server to assign a new dynamic IP
> address to a machine, instead of just re-assigning it its latest IP address?
>
> We seem to have rogue machine in the building set up to use an IP in
> the dynamic range as its static IP address, so when DHCP gives that
> address to our machine we get an IP conflict error. We have tried
> releasing & renewing the IP, but that just gets us back the same IP
> address that has the confilict. We also tried unregistering the
> machine from the campus DHCP server, then re-registering it, with the
> same result.
>
> So we want to tell the DHCP server, "Please give us a dynamic IP that
> is different from the one we already have, thanks." How do we do that?
>
> Thanks,
> -- dkm
