Partial DHCP.

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Mike Klick

I have a need to manually assign IP addresses, but want everything else to
come from DHCP. Is this practical and can it be done? And how?

Thanks,

Mike
 
I have a need to manually assign IP addresses, but want everything else to
come from DHCP. Is this practical and can it be done? And how?

Thanks,

Mike
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Sure. Define the scope of the addresses assigned by DHCP, then manually
assign IP Addresses from outside your defined scope.
 
If you manually configure a client's IP address, the client cannot receive
DHCP options. The conventional work around is to create Reservations in the
DHCP console. You need to know the client's MAC (Physical) address which
you can get by running ipconfig/all on the client. The result is that the
client will always get the IP address you assign through the reservation and
the client will also receive whatever scope options you have created.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP
 
yes it is practical and very easy. In DHCP set up your scope then set
an exclusion range for the static addresses.
 
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