I think I'd be tempted to go a different way; rather than setting
On Thursday 14 September 2006 18:13, Marlier, Ian wrote: the
DHCP server to always hand the same addresses to those clients, why not just set the lease time to, oh, a year or something?
Even if the clients leave, come back, and request a new address, the DHCP server will hand them the one they had before (since that MAC address still has a lease for that address).
That is true, and my lease time is set to 30 days, but it seems that one of my boxes is getting a different IP depending on whether a log in to Windows or Linux.
Now that's wacky behavior...
Hm, if you want to be save, you should get something like 127.0.0.2/31 ;-) But such a long lease time? In test /tryout environment, one hour lets you experiment safely. (I once handed out an address to an unknown machine and it took way too long for the lease to expire, since then we keep it short, and it does not produce any burden on network or the dhcp-server. For work environment, i would suggest 8-24 hours. In your subnet, one can give via dhcp, fixed adresses to known mac-addresses, and a (small) pool for the labtops of road-warriors. Hans -- pgp-id: 926EBB12 pgp-fingerprint: BE97 1CBF FAC4 236C 4A73 F76E EDFC D032 926E BB12 Registered linux user: 75761 (http://counter.li.org)