On 12/28/10 1:41 PM, Daniel Theisen wrote: >> This is a common setup. My suggested approach is to always use DHCP, >> and set DHCP reservations on your DHCP server to consistently assign >> the same IP to the same client's MAC address. That way, you can assign >> the IP and hostname in your local DNS or /etc/hosts or NIS hosts table >> or whatever, and get it set consistently. > This wouldn't be an issue if our network was built out with static DHCP in > mind. We have over 1000 servers that already have manually assigned static IP > addresses. The switch to static DHCP would be way too huge of an effort for a > simple problem like this
You wouldn't have to change anything on already-assigned servers - just include the known mac/ip pairs in your dhcp setup so they will be correct when you reinstall next time. -- Les Mikesell lesmiks...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos