We are currently running a tcp/ip network with windows 2000 and xp pro clients and an NT4.0 PDC. The PDC is also running DHCP. When I reboot the PDC I am recieving an IP conflict with another machine. I have obtained the mac address of the conflicting machine, but when I audit the machines by doing an ipconfig /all on each machine on the network, there is no corresponding ip or mac address.
This has happened on a couple of workstations as well, but it is intermittent. When rebooting the PDC, it is garaunteed to occur. The only solution I have so far is to reboot the PDC with the network cable unplugged. Help!
When the conflict occurs, I ping the ip address from another machine and it time out.
