Does DHCP issue many addresses per MAC?

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Ilya Pushkin2021-05-23 12:29:58

DHCP

Ilya Pushkin, 2021-05-23 12:29:58

Problem - in Leases, I see that a machine with a static IP is given multiple IP addresses to the same MAC address, while on a machine running win server 2016 there is only one physical and logical network interface. How is this possible?
An attempt to make a static address through Mikrotik was unsuccessful.

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hint000, 2021-05-24
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The RAS role has been raised on your server and the DHCP Relay Agent is running, which, as an intermediary, issues addresses to clients. If you google it, you will find that a similar question has been asked repeatedly in various forums, at least since 2004 . Even in the answers, the direct link to the Microsoft article has already gone sour, so here is from the archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120421065815/http://...
Plus this: https://www.google.com /search?q=dhcp+relay+agent+w...
Well, how to find the answer: