Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 13:19:09 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> Cc: johannes-maria@t-online.de, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: network configuration problem Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0804081312250.50715@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <47FBB888.5070306@ibctech.ca> References: <47FB3600.214104E2@t-online.de> <47FB63F1.2020207@ibctech.ca> <47FB9E0F.E7035FFF@t-online.de> <47FBB888.5070306@ibctech.ca>
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On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Steve Bertrand wrote: > If you ever need to add any other workstations to the network, you will want > to ensure that the IP you added to FreeBSD manually does not fall within the > DHCP scope of the gateway. > > For instance, if you plug a Windows PC into the gateway, it will by default > request an address via DHCP. If the gateway provides the Windows PC the same > address as FreeBSD, you will have communication problems. It's neater and safer to keep static and dynamic addresses in separate ranges, but often not strictly necessary. DHCP servers are supposed to ping an address before assuming it's unused. That normally means you can get away with manually allocating IP addresses inside a DHCP range. Unless some well-meaning person has blocked all ICMP, or disabled the DHCP server's ping address check. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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