On 12/28/10 1:41 PM, Daniel Theisen wrote:
>> This is a common setup. My suggested approach is to always use DHCP,
>> and set DHCP reservations on your DHCP server to consistently assign
>> the same IP to the same client's MAC address. That way, you can assign
>> the IP and hostname in your local DNS or /etc/hosts or NIS hosts table
>> or whatever, and get it set consistently.
> This wouldn't be an issue if our network was built out with static DHCP in
> mind. We have over 1000 servers that already have manually assigned static IP
> addresses. The switch to static DHCP would be way too huge of an effort for a
> simple problem like this
You wouldn't have to change anything on already-assigned servers - just include
the known mac/ip pairs in your dhcp setup so they will be correct when you
reinstall next time.
--
Les Mikesell
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