[MLB-WIRELESS] IP allocations within a node???

Rowan Crowe rowan at sensation.net.au
Mon Feb 28 13:38:54 EST 2005


On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, John McClumpha wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> I'd suggest not using DHCP for this as if a connection is lost & then
> regained a new (different) ip address may be allocated - thus causing
> problems where servers change addresses (and if DNS is in place, more
> problems there too) - I'd suggest sticking with static IPs, which is
> what Cam and I are planning to do.

It's been a while since I fooled with dhcpd, but doesn't a properly
configured DHCP server cache MAC addresses so it can assign the same IP
each time?

Cheers.

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