Your Windows 2000-based RIS server sends out DHCPInform packets regardless of the DisableRogueDetection registry entry value (843530)

SYMPTOMS

Your Microsoft Windows 2000-based Remote Installation Services (RIS) server sends out DHCPInform packets. This DHCPInform traffic may saturate the router log files. This issue may occur even if you set the DisableRogueDetection registry entry in the following subkey to a value of 1 to prevent the RIS server from sending out the DHCPInform packets:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\DHCPServer\Parameters

RESOLUTION

Hotfix information

A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only intended to correct the problem that this article describes. Apply it only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem.

To resolve this problem, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Product Support Services telephone numbers and information about support costs, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=support

Note In special cases, charges that are ordinarily incurred for support calls may be canceled if a Microsoft Support Professional determines that a specific update will resolve your problem. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for the specific update in question.

Prerequisites

This hotfix requires Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 or later.

Restart requirement

You must restart your computer after you apply this hotfix.

Hotfix replacement information

This hotfix does not replace any other hotfixes.

File information

The English version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in coordinated universal time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.

   Date         Time   Version            Size    File name
   --------------------------------------------------------------
   02-Jul-2004  00:27  5.0.2195.6944      98,064  Binlsvc.dll

REFERENCES

For more information about how DHCP uses DHCPInform packets to detect rogue DHCP servers, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/default.asp?url=/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/cnet/cncb_dhc_mdoz.asp

For additional information about how to set the DisableRogueDetection registry entry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

297847 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Server management issues in Windows 2000

For additional information about how hotfix packages are named, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

816915 New file naming schema for Microsoft Windows software update packages

824684 Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates