Scot L. Harris wrote:
The easiest thing to do is to allocate a portion of your address space
on the LAN for static addressed devices.
That is no longer an option. Many of our devices in the building
were installed and are supported by third party vendors who have, at
time of installation, configured their applications to work based on
those IPs. Consequently, we have devices with static IPs that are
scattered all over the spectrum. I can't change them and clump them all
together in a range without going through some serious pain, contacting
each vendor and have them send a technician to come "fix" the issue. I
need to work with what's currently there.
You can configure DHCP to allocate specific addresses based on the MAC
address of the device. But why bother? IMHO it just makes more work to
use DHCP for devices that really should be statically defined in the
first place.
We go through client computers faster than we do our larger
equipment. We have clients who walk in the building wanting to get onto
our network. I'm not there every time, and without me in the building,
it's a guessing game for them to figure out what IP they can use to get
on. Let alone having to figure out how to even set a static IP and
proper routing on our network. Most laptops you buy nowadays are, by
default, configured for DHCP. Most routers you buy, is configured for
DHCP, so most people don't bother with any networking, or to figure out
how to actually change their settings. So, it makes more sense, for us,
a service bureau, to convert part of our network to DHCP for our
clients. I just need to figure out how to do it while retaining the
static IPs that are required, and converting everything else to DHCP and
call it a day.
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