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  1. October 16th, 2003, 10:37 AM #1
    PJK
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    Question Check DHCP status remotely?

    Is there a utility that will check the DHCP status of a remote pc by entering, say, their IP address?
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  2. October 16th, 2003, 12:35 PM #2
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    What do you mean by checking? What info do you want? Lease time? What?
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  3. October 17th, 2003, 03:27 AM #3
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    I would like to know if a pc is DHCP enabled or not.
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  4. October 17th, 2003, 04:34 AM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by PJK
    I would like to know if a pc is DHCP enabled or not.
    Thoroughly confus-ed by that answer ! ... a pc would generally use dhcp to get an ip from some server somehere's ...
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  5. October 17th, 2003, 07:16 AM #5
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    Sorry for the short and confusing answer.

    I am working in a windows 2000 environment, with about 500 pc's. Some of our pc's are using static IP's, the rest are using DHCP. I am looking an easy way of pinging, or something, and the result telling me if that remote pc is using a static ip or DHCP ip.

    I know I can use the DHCP admin utility to tell me what users have a DHCP issued ip, but I am looking to know what pc's aren't. I am looking for an easy way rather than going through it by hand.

    Does this make sense?
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  6. October 17th, 2003, 08:03 AM #6
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    Ah ... I see said the blind man ...

    What else is 'floating about' in this network ? DNS of course should know what is currently connected ... so once you know that, take away your dynamically connected range & hopefully what you have left is just your static ips ...
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  7. October 17th, 2003, 08:49 AM #7
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    Do you know/have unique names for every system? If so why not just scan the range and combine that with confused's method above? A little proccess of elemination and you should have a list of systems with only static. As for knowing where the system is.... that's the fun part
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  8. October 17th, 2003, 10:09 AM #8
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    Ok, ok. I'm just a lazy sod.

    I will take your advice and do it the long way.


    Thanks confus-ed and Gollo for your replies.
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