DEC ALPHA WinNT 4.0 Servers w/ SP2 Fail to Lease DHCP Addresses

ID: Q163261

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0

SYMPTOMS

A DHCP client may fail to obtain a DHCP lease from Digital Equipment Corporation DEC Alpha computer running Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 2 (SP2) installed.

On the Windows 95 client, you will get the following error:

IP CONFIGURATION: ERROR:
DHCP Server Unavailable: Renewing Adapter.

On the Windows NT 4.0 workstation, you will get the following error:

The DHCP could not obtain an IP address.

The Windows NT 4.0 workstation event log will have one of the following entries:

Event ID: 1007
Source: DHCP
Description: DHCP failed to obtain a lease for the card with network address <adapter address>.

-or-

Event ID: 1003
Source: DHCP
Description: DHCP failed to obtain a lease for the card with network address <adapter address>.

CAUSE

DHCP server failed to correctly process the incoming request.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 4.0. This problem was corrected in the latest Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 U.S. Service Pack. For information on obtaining the service pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):

S E R V P A C K

Additional query words: prodnt DHCP Service Pack 2 3

Keywords : kbnetwork kbbug4.00 kbfix4.00 nttcp kbfix4.00.sp3 NTSrv
Version : 4.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type :