On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Eric Schmenk wrote:
> I'm wondering what I'm missing here. Sure, as the Addonics
> tech support said, the DHCP server is either on or off.
> There can't be any in-between states, right? But I can't
> imagine why there would be any problems mixing fixed and
> DHCP addresses, as long as the fixed addresses are legal and
> don't match an address already given away by the DHCP
> server. Right? Or is there something I don't know.
If you have a fixed address on the network, there is a risk of the DHCP
server giving it out to another box.
Of course, by observing its behaviour over a length of time, one might be
able to predict what address it will give and steer clear of it with the
fixed addresses.
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