Hi Steve
Anything you have as a static IP should not be available for DHCP. other than that,
your plan only has one little problem. There are no Ip's past 255. (254 to be safe). I
would use the lower range of say 10 to 100 for Static, and 101 to 250 for DHCP. Heck,
thats what I am doing. :-)
Craig
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On Mon, 03 Jul 2000 18:29:59
The Rosens wrote:
>I think I understand Bob's issue -because I have the same one. It appears that if you
>use DHCP
>exclusively, then you can't reference other network nodes *BY NAME* when using ping,
>telnet, etc. If you
>use DNS, then you have to hard code your hosts table (all be it, only in one place,
>on STN). If I am
>wrong - and you can use DHCP and ping other nodes via their node name, please let me
>know how.
>
>What I'm trying to do, is assign dedicated IP addresses to the more permanent nodes
>in my network, say
>in the range from 192.168.0.100 to 192.168.0.199, and let DHCP hand out addresses to
>the nomadic
>machines (read: laptops) in the rage from 192.168.0.200 to 192.168.0.299. Basically,
>I hard coded the
>-100 IP addresses into the DNS screen and tell the DHCP screen to hand out addresses
>from -200 to -299.
>
>Is this the right approach, or should I tell the DHCP screen to hand out addresses
>from -100 to -299
>and then simply hard code the resident machines into the DNS table.
>
>Thanks,
>...steve...
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>
>
>Bob Selby wrote:
>
>> I've been using STN for a while now without problems, but have never use DHCP.
>>
>> I have never been able to ping any internal workstation from any other - by name.
>This hasnt been
>> a problem till recently since none of the machines run a server.
>>
>> However, I now want to set up a SAMBA file server and an APACHE web server (for
>internal use only)
>> plus a laptop and some extra workstations and really want to start using named
>TCP/IP services and
>> DHCP on various machines.
>>
>> On the STN box (Dialup using PPP) the DNS server is setup with the "Name Svr" field
>blank. DHCP
>> is enabled and the laptop can get an IP address OK (running a network trace on the
>network confirms
>> that DHCP supplies the IP address and figures out the name of the laptop)
>>
>> On another workstation (WIN95 static IP address (for now) GATEWAY ip is OK) I can
>ping external
>> services OK but I cant ping the laptop by name ..... :-( I can ping the
>laptop if I give the
>> IP address.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest what I might be doing wrong ??? or am I expecting STN to do
>something it was not
>> designed for ???
>>
>> I'm fed up with maitaining LMHOST files and was hoping that the combo of DHCP and
>DNS would be the
>> answer to a maidens prayer.
>>
>> Rgds,
>> Bob
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