Windows 7 force DHCP renew after sleep/hibernate?
Hi all,
We have sporadic problems with Win 7:
Some clients, after weeks of sleep, display an IP conflict after waking up.
Network is a /16, with around 300 PCs, so it should be more than enough. DHCP is Win2008.
Are there any GP objects that I can use to force a DHCP release/renew after wakeup?
Thanks,
Tamas
We have sporadic problems with Win 7:
Some clients, after weeks of sleep, display an IP conflict after waking up.
Network is a /16, with around 300 PCs, so it should be more than enough. DHCP is Win2008.
Are there any GP objects that I can use to force a DHCP release/renew after wakeup?
Thanks,
Tamas
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Increasing the lease time to a month doesn't seem like the best solution, but it might help.
Reservations would work, but that would mean I'll have to lifecycle manage 300+ MACs in the reservation table, which means extra work...
Reservations would work, but that would mean I'll have to lifecycle manage 300+ MACs in the reservation table, which means extra work...
I didn't mean that with IMO (in mine opinion) :)
You can extend the lease to your personal preference.
Yes, at this point it's a lot of work to do reservations for 300 clients at this point but it will save you from future frustrations on a long road.
As I am aware domain user doesn't have neccessarry rights to renew its IP address manually, but if it does, you can also create a script on the user desktop that would renew the clients IP address from DHCP server.
So, when the client is back from the sleep it tries to use the last used IP address and because the lease expired, another client got that IP address and you got a conflict.
Those are my solutions based on personal experience and I honestly don't know if you have any other choice.
You can extend the lease to your personal preference.
Yes, at this point it's a lot of work to do reservations for 300 clients at this point but it will save you from future frustrations on a long road.
As I am aware domain user doesn't have neccessarry rights to renew its IP address manually, but if it does, you can also create a script on the user desktop that would renew the clients IP address from DHCP server.
So, when the client is back from the sleep it tries to use the last used IP address and because the lease expired, another client got that IP address and you got a conflict.
Those are my solutions based on personal experience and I honestly don't know if you have any other choice.
Do you have IP conflict detection enabled on your DHCP server?
Conflict detection
Conflict detection
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Now that is a beautiful solution! :)
Thanks mate!
Thanks mate!
Glad you like it TimotiSt. I gotta agree that at first glance it is a fairly clean way of doing what you want. The devil is in the detail and the deployment though!
Hope it does what you need it to.
Hope it does what you need it to.
Also, it is useful to use DHCP reservations. At least we have that setup in our company.