Disable dhcp proxy for PPP VPN (outside DHCP server + NPS)

Question

Hi,
Our VPN setup is to authenticate / authorize via RADIUS to a Microsoft NPS server / Active Directory and use our internal DHCP server to receive its information. We are running a Cisco 2811, with firmware release k9 15.1- 4.M5.
However, we have been having some issues with our setup for a dial-in VPN. We managed to get almost everything working.
The user can dial in and authenticate and it even builds the proper PPTP tunnel. However, the client machine when it sends out a DHCP requests seems to get forced to proxy through the Cisco router. Thus what the DHCP server sees is a encoded MAC address from the cisco all the time and sees the client as being the cisco router not the VPN client/user. This is rather frustrating, as in Active directory DNS tables it will show up as the router having x number of different IP addresses and the end client doesn't show up at all.
I have tried utilizing a bunch of different configuration options to test, all with the same outcome.
Utilizing "ip helper-address <dhcp server>", didn't work to forward correct. Thent trying to turn of all DHCP services, with the global command of "no service dhcp", didn't change any result. Neither did setting a global command of "ip dhcp-server <dhcp server>".
What i am trying to acchive is that the cisco does NOT mess with the dhcp request and just allows it to pass through.
Anyone have any idea?
Here are the parts of the current configuration in respect to this:
no service dhcp
aaa new-model
aaa authentication login CONSOLE local
aaa authentication ppp default group radius local
aaa authorization network default if-authenticated
aaa session-id common
no ip domain lookup
ip domain name <domain>
ip name-server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
ip dhcp-server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
vpdn enable
vpdn-group 1
! Default PPTP VPDN group
accept-dialin
  protocol pptp
  virtual-template 1
interface Virtual-Template1
ip unnumbered FastEthernet0/1    <-Internal Interface
no ip proxy-arp
ip nat inside
no ip virtual-reassembly in
peer default ip address dhcp
ppp encrypt mppe auto required
ppp authentication pap chap ms-chap ms-chap-v2
radius-server host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
radius-server key <private key>
And the problem that i am seeing when running a debug on dhcp:
*Jan 15 09:01:46.558: DHCP: proxy allocate request
*Jan 15 09:01:46.558: DHCP: new entry. add to queue, interface Virtual-Access5
*Jan 15 09:01:46.558: DHCP: Client socket is opened
*Jan 15 09:01:46.558: DHCP: SDiscover attempt # 1 for entry:
*Jan 15 09:01:46.558: DHCP: SDiscover: sending 284 byte length DHCP packet
*Jan 15 09:01:46.558: DHCP: SDiscover 284 bytes
*Jan 15 09:01:46.562: DHCP: XID MATCH in dhcpc_for_us()
*Jan 15 09:01:46.990: DHCP: Received a BOOTREP pkt
*Jan 15 09:01:46.990: DHCP: offer received from <DHCP SERVER>
*Jan 15 09:01:46.990: DHCP: SRequest attempt # 1 for entry:
*Jan 15 09:01:46.990: DHCP: SRequest- Server ID option: <DHCP SERVER>
*Jan 15 09:01:46.990: DHCP: SRequest- Requested IP addr option: 192.168.10.100
*Jan 15 09:01:46.990: DHCP: SRequest: 296 bytes
*Jan 15 09:01:46.990: DHCP: SRequest: 296 bytes
*Jan 15 09:01:46.994: DHCP: XID MATCH in dhcpc_for_us()
*Jan 15 09:01:46.994: DHCP: Received a BOOTREP pkt
*Jan 15 09:01:46.994: DHCP: Sending notification of ASSIGNMENT:
*Jan 15 09:01:46.994:   Address 0.0.0.0 mask 0.0.0.0
*Jan 15 09:01:46.994: DHCP Proxy Client Pooling: ***Allocated IP address: 192.168.10.100
*Jan 15 09:01:46.994: DHCP: look up prim DNS for Vi5 from lease good ret: <DNS server 1>
*Jan 15 09:01:46.998: DHCP: look up prim NBNS for Vi5 from lease any ret: fail
*Jan 15 09:01:46.998: DHCP: look up sec DNS for Vi5 from lease good ret: <DHCP Server>
*Jan 15 09:01:46.998: DHCP: look up sec NBNS for Vi5 from lease any ret: fail
*Jan 15 09:01:47.018: DHCP: look up prim DNS for Vi5 from lease good ret: <DNS server 1>
*Jan 15 09:01:47.018: DHCP: look up sec DNS for Vi5 from lease good ret: <DHCP Server>
*Jan 15 09:01:47.038: DHCP: look up prim DNS for Vi5 from lease good ret: <DNS server 1>
*Jan 15 09:01:47.038: DHCP: look up sec DNS for Vi5 from lease good ret: <DHCP Server>
*Jan 15 09:01:56.826: DHCP: Interface Virtual-Access5 going down. Releasing: 192.168.10.100
*Jan 15 09:01:56.826: DHCP: start holddown for 192.168.10.100
*Jan 15 09:01:56.826: DHCP: Holddown and T1 remain 1792 sec
As one can see even with the configuration to turn of any proxy or dhcp, the cisco router still try's to interject and proxy the request, aka:
DHCP: proxy allocate request
If anyone has any idea, please let me know
Thanks
S.

Answer 1

Hello Stephen.
How is this behaviour in 7.5? It's weird because in the individual interfaces you might change the value, but it doesn't get accepted. So it still seems that it's a global setting... but then: why showing this item to be changed on each interface?
Kind regards,
Flavio.