Guys, I am having a serious issue with PDANet, and I need to find out if anyone else is having the issue. PDANet is conflicting with the DHCP server on my Windows Server 2003, and stopping the DHCP service on that server!
I am the sys admin for the company I work at. I installed and used PDANet last weekend. I came into work on Monday morning (with my iphone, that connects to our wifi) and I immediately got a notification that the DHCP service on our server had stopped. As I've been fighting other issues recently, this took me quite some time to narrow down to the iphone, but I can now definitively say that it is the problem. The thing is, PDANet should have been off - I wasn't using it at the time. Today, I downloaded the updated version, and again, I wasn't using it, but as soon as it was installed, my DHCP server stopped again! I restarted the phone, and that appears to stop the PDANet dhcp service, but this is a serious problem. It's one thing for me, as the sysadmin, to have to deal with this behavior coming from my own phone, but I can guarantee there are going to be a lot of unhappy admins out there if this starts happening widely. Given that the default behavior of a Windows Server 2003 DHCP server is to shutdown if it detects a competing DHCP server on the same subnet, I suspect it will.