Re: OUTQ question

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris,

   You are correct about the PING working. Sometimes. The OS/400 DHCP server
does this too. The problem is this: I turn on my PC, and get address
x.x.x.123. Your PC is configured statically for that address but it's not
currently turned on. When you turn yours on, one of us gets clobbered. If
you leave all your PCs on this is clearly less of an issues.

   Because of this we always attempt to keep static assignments outside the
DHCP address.

  - L

Chris Bipes wrote:

> 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.


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