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: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org