gildororonar@mail-on.us wrote:
Hello. We are in a small office that shares a broadband (10MB/s) connection with several other offices. The LAN administrator ask us to use IP address from 192.168.4.42 to 192.168.5.57. Since most our users are mobile workers visiting customer from day to day, assign each notebook fixed IP address is an inflexible solution. DHCP wouldn't work because there is a DHCP server in one of the near-by offices that keep granting IP addresses that are not usable (e.g. 172.16.4.3). The local IT administrator will not corporate to find and stop the mallfunctioning DHCP server (not set up by him) and set up a working one, because he thinks fixed IP address is a perfect solution, mostly because he do not travel but sit in the server room all day and he doesn't mind travellers have different requirement. Solving the problem at management level turns out not working because the network is shared by multiple offices and connectivity offered by non-profit governmental organization. It is difficult to force somebody do things if they don't get money from you.
Is there a technical solution to my case? There is a technical solution, though the right solution might be at management level.
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