DHCP failed to maintain the IP Address after expired

Hi Windows Experts,

I have some wierd problems on my DHCP server. So I have a dhcp client and this client was able to get a IP Address from my DHCP Server running under Windows 2008 R2.

Now I notice that, after the DHCP Lease got expired, my DHCP client was not able to re-negotiate or extend its least. I just noticed that it changed to a 169.X.X.X.

My DHCP Client is a Windows 7.

Does anyone encountered this before? Or is this a bug or known issue?

DHCPWindows Server 2008Windows 7

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SandMan

8/22/2022 - Mon

Paul-B

3/13/2012

I believe the following hot-fix is what you need. It seems to be at the root of the problem you are having.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2554746

systan

3/13/2012

hi
I've encountered that kind of problem,
I just find the exact driver for the lan and removed my previous lan driver and reinstall it with the one I downloaded, I selected not the latest driver update.

I think its a lan driver issue

ImaCircularSaw

3/13/2012

looks like the 169 address is one that it's given itself. I usually see this in the case where there is a network cable unplugged or some sort of communication error between the client and DHCP server.

Can you check that you can ping the DHCP server from the client machine and that in 'ipconfig /all' the DHCP server shows up.

If you've not disabled it, it could be that the server is getting an IPv6 address.

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ded9

3/13/2012

Launch services.msc in client computer and make sure dhcp service is started.

Ded9

SandMan

3/13/2012

ASKER

Hi guys, my windows 7 was able to get an IP from my DHCP server so definitely the dhcp client service is running. And no issues on the cable as all are running under Vmware ESX

ImaCircularSaw

3/14/2012

Sounds like DHCP is giving out an incorrect IP range. Could you screenshort the results of a cmd > 'ipconfig /all' and also the network settings of your DNS & DHCP server?

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3/14/2012

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