On Tuesday 13 March 2007 8:27 pm, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: > > Could you define what you mean by "fully dynamic DHCP"? If your DHCP > server is changing IP addresses constantly, even if it is updating the > DNS server, it is misconfigured. It will give out the same IP to the > same NIC every time, unless its range is too small for the number of > machines connecting.
In fact I have fixed IP addresses assigned using my router's DHCP configuration page, but I don't like the idea of counting on that -- it just seems unnecessarily rigid. Fully dynamic to me means that your configuration continues to work no matter how the router decides to assign the DHCP addresses --- even in the case, say, where you're adding machines to the LAN or removing them unpredictably. I wonder -- if I remove all my machines from the LAN for a month (so the router forgets the configuration) and reconnect them in a different order than I did originally, will the IP addresses still stay the same? I thought the way DHCP works is that when the router sees a machine it hasn't seen before, it assigns it the lowest available IP number in the DHCP range. Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
