full-disclosure - DHCP Flood on inside network. HELP!!

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From: EddieS at softhome.net (Eddie )
Subject: DHCP Flood on inside network. HELP!!

I don't have much information on this yet, I am driving down to the office now to pull an all nighter. I figured I would toss this out to the list and see if anyone has any 
idea.  This is just info from what I can get from talking to people and what little time I can get on the network before it goes down. 

Starting 2 days ago, I discovered the PIX 515 was locked hard.  It seems to be random, but around every 15-30 minutes something floods the network hard for a few 
minutes. Broadcast flood too. This is a small network with 30 workstations and 5 servers (Linux and SCO, no Wins). It overloads the Extreme switches and I see pdu (or 
something like that, not udp tho) errors on about every port. 
The Pix 515  overloads and is having issues, but I did see it say something about ARP problems when I could get to the syslog for more info. I looked up the error 
number and it said it could be ARP poisoning. Not sure what would do that. 

In the syslog of the DHCP server, I see thousands of DHCP DISCOVER request(and the REPLAY request from the server, a Linux box).  It looks like one client on the 
network (I have seen this both from XP and Win98) will send 100+  DISCOVER request a second swamping the network. Not always DISCOVER too. 
That will go on for a few minutes, then all is well. Then another computer will do the same thing. 

This is quickly overloading things and I am getting IRQ busy and overload errors on some of the servers. 

What should I look for. I have never seen something like this before. 

Thanks
-Eddie