Delete the "active lease". Not the Reservation,...I mean the lease.
If the old Lease is still there, then IP# is still "in use" by the old MAC
as far as the DHCP Service is concerned,..therefore it refuses to give the
IP# to the new MAC.
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"Will" <westes-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have a Windows 2003 member server that was working fine with DHCP. Dell
>came out to replace the motherboard, and after that I cannot get DHCP to
>work. Of course I changed the reservation on the DHCP server to match the
>new MAC address corresponding to the MAC on the motherboard. What I see
>from a sniffer on the member server is that when it does a DHCP request,
>immediately the DHCP server starts a sequence of:
>
> 1) DHCP Offer
> 2) Short delay
> 3) DHCP NAK
>
> So the DHCP server makes the IP address offer to the member server, and
> after a pause there is a DHCP NAK. Is that a normal behavior for the
> server?
>
> From the member server's perspective, when I do an IPCONFIG /RELEASE
> followed by IPCONFIG /RENEW, the renew fails instantly, and the
> eventviewer message says the DHCP server is refusing the lease with a DHCP
> NAK.
>
> Any idea what would be causing this sequence and how to fix it?
>
> --
> Will
>
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