RE: OUTQ question -- MIDRANGE-L

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You can configure your DHCP server to test the IP for availability before it
assigns the address.  At least in 2K servers DHCP.  What the DHCP server
does is ping the address before it assigns it.  It was great for switching
from static to DHCP.  We set the range we wanted and moved all the server
outside the range.  (Mostly printers and protocol converters.)  We move PC's
to DHCP department by department and had no conflict of IPs even though we
knew we had static IP in the dynamic range.

Christopher K. Bipes      mailto:ChrisB@Cross-Check.com
Operations & Network Mgr  mailto:Chris_Bipes@Yahoo.com
CrossCheck, Inc.                  http://www.cross-check.com
6119 State Farm Drive     Phone: 707 586-0551 x 1102
Rohnert Park CA  94928    Fax: 707 586-1884


-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Morehead [mailto:cbmorehead@nokuse.com]
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 7:48 AM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: OUTQ question


Jim,

It depends on if your DHCP server is configured correctly.  You define the
ranges of available IP's in the DHCP config.  If any of your static IP's
overlap with this range(s) then annoying intermittent failures are quite
possible.

Chuck

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