Blocking out ip ranges with ICS

[Guest]

I have been using an XP Professional box configured with ICS turned on for my
small office. Recently we have acquired some printers that need their own IP
address, but it needs to be static, not served by DHCP.

I cant seem to find a way to mark a range of IP's for the DHCP service to
NOT hand out via DHCP.

Is there a way to do this in XP?

I found on the web some help files that say to use the "netsh DHCP" command,
but DHCP is not a valid option for netsh on my box.

Thanks in advance,

 

[labrat]

instead of marking a range for dhcp service, it is more convenient to
asslgin a client with static ip to work with the ics dedicated
workstation.

here is how:

Add a valid ICS private IP address to the client.
· Configure the default gateway to be 192.168.0.1.
· Configure the preferred DNS server to be 192.168.0.1.
· Add MSHOME.NET as the DNS suffix on the client.
· Add an entry for the client to the Hosts file on the Windows
XP-based ICS host, using client_name.MSHOME.NET as the name.

i hope this will help.

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

I have been using an XP Professional box configured with ICS turned on for my
small office. Recently we have acquired some printers that need their own IP
address, but it needs to be static, not served by DHCP.

I cant seem to find a way to mark a range of IP's for the DHCP service to
NOT hand out via DHCP.

Is there a way to do this in XP?

I found on the web some help files that say to use the "netsh DHCP" command,
but DHCP is not a valid option for netsh on my box.

Thanks in advance,

There's no way to configure the DHCP service on the ICS host or to
reserve a range of addresses.

I think that everything will work OK anyway. As I understand it, the
ICS DHCP server checks to see if anything on the network already has a
specific address (by broadcasting an arp request) before allocating
that address. If it gets a reply, the DHCP server skips that address
and tries to allocate a different one.

It should be fine to assign static addresses in the
192.168.0.2-192.168.0.254 range.
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