Re: iSeries, DHCP

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

What if they set them up to do DHCP but had them setup as Set Reservations

http://www.tech-faq.com/dhcp-reservation.html

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Chris Bipes
<chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I have never seen a place to set the iSeries to a DHCP client.  But you
> can add additional IP address, get them started, connect to new IP,
> update DNS, connect to new and shut down old.
>
> Now your network guys know nothing about NON windows domain machines.
> When a PC or Windows Server that is part of an Active Directory Domain
> retrieve a DHCP address, they automatically register in the Active
> Directory Domain DNS.  Your iSeries will not as of 6.1 that I know of.
> These new guys, IMHO, do not know what they are doing.  Servers should
> be static and not moved around.  In the perfect world, your servers will
> be behind a firewall with only the necessary services open to the client
> DHCP subnet.  Your Primary Domain Controller will be with the servers.
> Each DHCP subnet would have a secondary Domain Controller providing DNS
> and DHCP for the Clients.  Each subnet would be defined as Domain Site
> with a connector to the Primary DC.
>
> But that is just imho.
>
> --
> Chris Bipes
> Director of Information Services
> CrossCheck, Inc.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: iSeries, DHCP
>
>
> Client has a new set of network admin guys (Windows-centric), and
> they've been reconfiguring the network, creating new subnets and
> what-not, to make it easier to move addresses around as they want/need.
> They want to remove the internal static IP addresses assigned to the
> iSeries partitions ('dev', 'test', 'live') and configure the box to use
> DHCP (not as a DHCP server, as DHCP client).
>
> The iSeries is at 6.1, no current plans to move to 7.1.
>
> Can we configure their iSeries to pull an address using DHCP instead of
> static addressing?
>
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