I really don't want to hijaak Kent's thread, but you are fixated on just Microsoft's DHCP in its newer iterations. MS does not have a monopoly on DHCP. In the real world, it could be NT4, nix/nux, Access Points or other hardware, or even end users setting up ICS.
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