Event ID 1064 — DHCP BOOTP Configuration

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Applies To: Windows Server 2008 R2

The Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP) is a host configuration protocol developed before Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). DHCP improves on BOOTP and resolves its limitations as a host configuration service.

The BOOTP service can request Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for BOOTP clients from the DHCP server. If the DHCP server cannot provide IP addresses, the BOOTP service might not function correctly.

Event Details

Product: Windows Operating System
ID: 1064
Source: Microsoft-Windows-DHCP-Server
Version: 6.1
Symbolic Name: EVENT_SERVER_BOOTP_FULL
Message: There are no IP addresses available for BOOTP clients in the scope or superscope "%1".

Resolve

Extend DHCP scopes, reduce lease times, or decrease cleanup interval

If the DHCP server does not have IP addresses available to provide to the Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP) service for its clients, BOOTP fails. When this occurs, consider the following possible solutions:

  • Use scope extension to expand the address range for the current scope.
  • Reduce the lease duration and decrease the cleanup interval. This can help to speed the reclaiming of expired scope IP addresses.

Extend the DHCP scope

If you already have a DHCP scope and the Start Address and End Address do not currently include all addresses for your specific subnet, you can increase the number of addresses in the scope by extending the Start Address or End Address in the scope properties.

To increase the number of addresses available to clients:

  1. At the DHCP server, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click DHCP.
  2. In the console tree, right-click the scope you want to extend, and then click Properties.
  3. Change Start IP Address and End IP Address to extend the scope.

Reduce the lease duration

To perform these procedures, you must be a member of the Administrators group, or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority.

To reduce the lease duration:

  1. At the DHCP server, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click DHCP.
  2. In the DCHP console tree, right-click the scope you want to configure, and then click Properties.
  3. On the General tab, under Lease duration for DHCP clients, type the new lease duration.

Decrease the cleanup interval

To perform these procedures, you must be a member of the Administrators group, or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority.

To use a Netsh command to set the cleanup interval time:

  1. At the DHCP server, click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then press ENTER.
  2. Type netsh dhcp set databasecleanupinterval "NewInterval" (where "NewInterval" is the amount of time in minutes between DHCP database cleanups).

Example

In the following example, this command sets the database cleanup interval to 10,080 minutes (every seven days).

netsh dhcp set databasecleanupinterval 10080

Verify

To verify that the DHCP server has enough IP addresses available to lease, ensure that Scope in the DHCP console tree displays a green up arrow icon.

To perform these procedures, you must be a member of the Administrators group, or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority.

  1. At the DHCP server, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click DHCP.
  2. In the DHCP console tree, view the scope icon. It should be a green up arrow.

DHCP BOOTP Configuration

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