Legacy BOOTP Clients Do Not Receive Option 144 Value (262140)

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server

This article was previously published under Q262140

SYMPTOMS

The BOOTP process typically consists of a BOOTP client requesting a list of options and a BOOTP server responding with the values of those requested options. If an option is not requested, a value for that specific option is not returned. However, legacy BOOTP devices may have need of certain options that they cannot be configured to request.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

   Date      Time    Version        Size     File name
   ------------------------------------------------------
   8/18/00   4:38PM  5.0.2195.2103  270,608  Dhcpssvc.dll

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 2.

MORE INFORMATION

After you apply this hotfix, a Windows 2000 DHCP Server that is configured with option 144 returns the option 144 value whether or not the BOOTP client requests it.

Modification Type:	Minor	Last Reviewed:	9/26/2005
Keywords:	kbHotfixServer kbQFE kbbug kbenv kbfix kbnetwork kbQFE KB262140