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For clarification, it might be more understandable for people if you say that all machines but the firewall are DHCP clients, but the server systems are always assigned the same address by the DHCP server, based on MAC address. This isn't a static address, it is just a consistently assigned dynamic address :)<BR>
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On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 09:44 -0500, Grant Edwards wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:08:01AM -0500, Michael J. Lynch wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> >You do realize that static vs. dynamic and DHCP vs. non-DHCP</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> >are orthogonal issues? All my machines use DHCP, yet the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> >servers all have statically assigned addresses. The</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> >non-servers also use DHCP, but they have dynamic addresses.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Meaning that your servers are DHCP servers and the non-servers are</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> DHCP clients?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">No. Everything is a DHCP client (except the firewall where the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">DHCP server is -- it's a DHCP client on the WAN interface but</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">has a hard-wired IP address on the internal LAN). However,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">even on the internal LAN, I prefer to that the "server"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">machines (the ones that provide file-serving, web-serving,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">print-serving, etc.) have IP addresses that never change.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Therefore I assign static IP addresses to those machines. The</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">remainder of the normal client/desktop type machines get IP</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">addresses dynamically allocated from a pool.</FONT>
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