On 10/07/2019 11:14, Jethro_uk wrote:

Which leads to another question ... there's nothing else on the network
that's doing a DHCP job is there ? I know WinXP/NT Server 4 networks
could be jammed if another DHCP server popped up from nowhere. Which used
to happen a lot (in those days) as salespeople carried NT4 Server laptops
and their IT guys never turned off DHCP. So when they connected to our
network everything barfed.


Some daft ******* must have installed or enabled it- pretty sure it was
never on by default.