On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 09:30:36PM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote:
> 
> Any network engineer worth his salt better be able to locate one
> extremely quickly, and cut it from the network, until the one in charge
> of the rogue box has disabled it. After all, it isn't that difficult to
> chase a cable from the port in question on the switch to the box running
> the rogue DHCP server.

It's not always that simple.  I had one time where the rogue DHCP server
was giving out correct information for almost everything.  The only
thing it was getting wrong was next-server, so certain machines weren't
PXE booting correctly.  Sure, sometimes it's easy to track down a rogue
DHCP server, but at times the effects can be incredibly subtle.

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