Rogue router / DHCP on network
Hi - I do work for a school where there are about 100 computers on site that basically just connect to the internet, no true AD network. I received a call over the weekend telling me that as of last week there were some that were able to get online, and some that were not. For the ones that were not, I was able to connect to them remotely, but could not connect them to internet at all. The ones that could not connect we're getting a way different IP address out of the range on the router, telling me that there was some rogue device running dhcp, as if someone had plugged in another router somewhere on campus. How would I go about troubleshooting this WITHOUT having to go to each network jack on campus to make sure no device is plugged into it? Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks!
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This might help if you run DHCP off of a Windows based server..
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee941207%28v=ws.10%29.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee941207%28v=ws.10%29.aspx
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Update - it seems to be getting an IP address from the correct router (192.168.0.1) but the DNS server is 10.100.1.1 where it should be another couple of IPs - where it's getting this DNS address from, we don't know...
Probably statically defined on the PC.
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Hi - not statically defined - that DNS isn't on our network - affecting multiple machines
Right.
What I'm saying is that if the DNS entries are statically defined on the PC you can still get an IP address from a DHCP server but the DNS entries will not be accepted from the DHCP server.
The question that I have is whether the DNS settings on these PC's are statically defined.
If they aren't, then I would verify that the IP address, DG and DNS addresses are coming from the correct DHCP server. Use the ipconfig/all command to see what the IP address of the DHCP server is.
What I'm saying is that if the DNS entries are statically defined on the PC you can still get an IP address from a DHCP server but the DNS entries will not be accepted from the DHCP server.
The question that I have is whether the DNS settings on these PC's are statically defined.
If they aren't, then I would verify that the IP address, DG and DNS addresses are coming from the correct DHCP server. Use the ipconfig/all command to see what the IP address of the DHCP server is.
Then start checking the MAC address tables of the switches looking for that MAC address. It will lead you to the port that the illegal device is connected to.