Bad DHCP Addresses

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Branden Watson

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May 7, 2014, 10:05:21 AM5/7/14
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Hello Everyone!

We currently have 800 HP Chromebooks in service in our district and will be adding another 500 shortly. Daily I am seeing "bad address" in our DHCP server for our Chromebooks. A little background on our network: Server 2008 R2 VM PDC,DNS,DHCP server, Meru wireless with pervasive coverage. We have tried letting the Chromebooks go with just normal dhcp leases and we have also created dhcp reservations for them but either way we still get bad address in our server. It is about 3-5 per week and it is all different Chromebooks. Wondering if anyone else has see this.

Thanks!!

Branden Watson
Amherst Technology 
(716) 362-3037
bwa...@amherstschools.org

DIXON, SCOTT

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May 7, 2014, 10:39:59 AM5/7/14
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We routinely get this as well – much more often with reservations.  Since we had no way to track MAC addresses previously we did reservations on our Chromebooks so we could track filtering easier.

 

Because of the BAD_ADDRESSES – we ran a script that would delete the reservations each night and reload the range.

 

One of our techs thinks he found a pattern – it happens much more at some building and rarely if ever at others.

 

The building that has the most issues  often have teachers that carelessly leave Chromebooks sitting open with the screen open when they go home at night.  Even though they are asleep – we think it has an issue when we delete their reservation and recreate them.

 

Our buildings that properly close and store all their Chromebooks rarely have this issue.

 

This is only an observation that we have picked up on – no idea if there is anything to it yet.  A closed Chromebook is also in sleep mode, so not sure why open vs closed would make a difference, but there appears to be a pattern.

 

We rarely have bad dhcp addresses when we do not use a reservation.  We are using a mix of the original Samsung Series 5 and the newer Samsung Series 3 x303 models. 

 

Scott Dixon

Network Support Specialist

Woodridge School District 68

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Sean Eisner

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May 7, 2014, 10:44:53 AM5/7/14
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Show off...:) Kidding

I really don't know what it could be either. It might be some different type of sleep mode affecting the wi-fi interface. This could just be a bug that none of us can resolve without Google knowing about it. Hard to say...

Sean
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