Reserving and assigning IP's using DHCP

[NetworkNinja]

Morning All,

 

Hope you are enjoying your holidays or are you at work like me?

 

My Main Task over the holidays is to set 5 IT Rooms with static IP's, whats the best way of doing this? I was thinking to reserve a set of IP's in DHCP such as 12.50.198.1 - 12.50.198.100 for example.

 

Would the best way be to manually set the static IP's on the machines once they have been reserved.

 

Thanks

[RobD]

Reserve them in DHCP i.e. let them get an IP then reserve them.

[Davit2005]

Morning All,

 

Hope you are enjoying your holidays or are you at work like me?

 

My Main Task over the holidays is to set 5 IT Rooms with static IP's, whats the best way of doing this? I was thinking to reserve a set of IP's in DHCP such as 12.50.198.1 - 12.50.198.100 for example.

 

Would the best way be to manually set the static IP's on the machines once they have been reserved.

 

Thanks

 

Reserve on the DHCP server, don't bother giving static addresses unless you have a reliable way to record ones in use. You could use a simple IP scanner or set up PHPiPAM. I wouldn't bother with InfoBlox free as it doesn't do scheduled scanning and setting a Static IP on InfoBlox Free edition is impossible.

[NetworkNinja]

Reserve them in DHCP i.e. let them get an IP then reserve them.

 

This is what i was thinking of doing but i want the IP's to follow on for example Computer 1 - 12.50.198.1 Computer 2- 12.50.198.2

 

Once i reserved the machine to change the ip i would just change the IP in DHCP and this should update the machine.

[RobD]

What I would do then is turn the PC's off, remove them from DHCP (and anything else in the scope) then turn them on in the order you want then reserve them as they the IP.

[SpuffMonkey]

Can't you assign the DHCP reservations by MAC address - then you'd get the IP addresses you want and they'd never mes up and you just let it happen automagically?

[sparkeh]

Can't you assign the DHCP reservations by MAC address - then you'd get the IP addresses you want and they'd never mes up and you just let it happen automagically?

Yeah, just do this.

[NetworkNinja]

Can't you assign the DHCP reservations by MAC address - then you'd get the IP addresses you want and they'd never mes up and you just let it happen automagically?

 

Thanks for the advice, i am going to do it this way