Three things: 1) DHCP is your best bet for managing addresses - don't get rid of it, use it. Reservations and exclusions are there for good reasons, as well as standard (DNS, and DG assignment) and vendor-defined (VoIP, etc.) options, etc.. APIPA is meant for unmanaged (AKA broken) networks.
2) Please don't use the address ranges you've mentioned below, unless you will not, in your lifetime plus 20 years, have anyone accessing your network via VPN. 192.168.0.0/24 and 192.168.1.0/24 are the default subnets for consumer routers/firewalls, and almost nobody changes them. Having the same subnets at the source and destination nets is a recipe for major hair-pulling. Choose a your /24s from the upper ranges of the 192.168.0.0/16, or from either of the other two RFC1918 subnets (10.0.0.0/8, and 172.16.0.0/whatever - I can never remember the netmask for that one), and save yourself a lot of frustration. 3) Depending on your environment, you might well wish to consider having three /24s - having a guest wireless subnet is a good thing for most situation. Kurt On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 1:07 PM, S Powell <[email protected]> wrote: > We are running DHCP now, we are just looking to get rid of it as we > change some things around. > We're looking to tie addresses together, so that we have static > ethernet addresses on the 192.168.0.x range where x = the machine ID > and have the static wifi addresses be in the 192.168.1.x range > > So if I see something on x.x.x.45 I know at a glance that it can only > be one computer. > It eliminates ambiguity. > > > On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Matthew W. Ross > <[email protected]> wrote: >>> We’d like to use apipa to assign a static IP address to the wifi >>> adapters; so that we can turn off DHCP in the office, and yet allowh >>> DHCP when not in the office. >> >> Why do you not want a DHCP server? >> >> >> --Matt Ross >> Ephrata School District >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: S Powell >> [mailto:[email protected]] >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 >> 11:57:45 -0800 >> Subject: apipa scripting? >> >> >>> My google-Fu has failed, does anyone know how to script apipa configuration? >>> >>> Automatic private IP addressing (normally it is that 169… address you >>> get when something is wrong with your networking) >>> >>> We are doing this using the alternative configuration tab under ipv4 >>> properties that is enabled when you select DHCP. >>> I’d like to be able to script this process and not do every computer >>> in the office by hand. >>> >>> We’d like to use apipa to assign a static IP address to the wifi >>> adapters; so that we can turn off DHCP in the office, and yet allow >>> DHCP when not in the office. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> >>> >>> Sean >>> >>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >>> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >>> >>> --- >>> To manage subscriptions click here: >>> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >>> or send an email to [email protected] >>> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >>> >>> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to [email protected] >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
