Question

Cannot ping clients with DHCP addres, but can ping clients with DHCP reservation

Asked by: Laksen83

Hello.

I have a odd problem.
The clients getting their IP addresses from the DHCP server cannot be pinged.
Cannot ping name, fqdn or ip. (this also regards RDP and pstools)
However, the clients getting their reserved IP addresses from the DHCP server can be pinged.
All the clients do work, can connect to internet and servers without any problems.
There is nothing configured in GPO to stop ping or have any firewall's enabled. I did think that this was a Firewall issue of some sort, but when the clients that have their reserved IP addresses from the DHCP server CAN be pinged, I am getting a bit confused.
2003 Domain, XP SP2 clients and everything is functioning as it should except no ping,rdp or pstools usage is possible to the DHCP clients without reservations.
This is quite annoying as this is on a vessel and therefor a bit hard to support them :)

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2009-11-03 at 23:39:26ID24870010
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DHCP ping firewall gpo reservation

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Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

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Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)

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TCP/IP

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Answers

 

by: DocSeltsamPosted on 2009-11-03 at 23:46:06ID: 25737195

Hi there,

is it possible, that the DHCP - IP area has some firewall rules activated on your central router/firewall and
the fixed IP area has no/different rules?

--TheDoctor

 

by: Laksen83Posted on 2009-11-03 at 23:58:29ID: 25737240

Hello.

I have looked into that as well, but there is nothing that is different (nothing configured). Everything should be working as this is a rather basic setup. However I can have missed something...

Any other suggestions? In my opinion this is almost always caused by some firewall blocking, but this only regards the computers getting IP from DHCP server which is not reserved.
Can there be some conflict because of that?
The IP range is .151 - 200 and the reservations is inside that range and the other clients does not get a reserved IP.
As I said, this is on a vessel, so it is hard for me to try things and troubleshoot, but I am building a XP VM now to do some troubleshooting myself.
I suspect that if I put in a static IP it will work (as all the servers work).
Will post my findings when this is done.

-Tom

 

by: wolfcamelPosted on 2009-11-04 at 01:03:13ID: 25737531

do you have a typo and the dhcp machine are being given a different subnet.\
Also - you can turn off windows firewall with group policy if you think this may be the cause.

 

by: wolfcamelPosted on 2009-11-04 at 01:04:22ID: 25737536

also - instead of a ping try a tracert - you may have an odd route that is trying to get to these PCs via an external router or similar.

can the PCs ping the server?

 

by: Laksen83Posted on 2009-11-04 at 02:13:01ID: 25737845

You know what.

I feel extremly stupid now, but I can only blame the vessel crew.
The windows firewall was indeed turned on on the computers that had not a reserved DHCP address.
Someone else set up these computers and did not turn the windows firewall off.
Oh well.

Thanks anyways :)

Tom

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