---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:11:08 -0600
>I'm going to have a problem in the future with this arrangement >because our company will soon be using DHCP to set IP addresses. >Gnatbox requires a fixed IP address to be entered in the filter >definition and the use of DHCP will ruin this. I see two possible solutions to your problem. First would be, for these machines that you are defining special filters for have them kept at a static IP outside of the DHCP scope. These systems would remain in the same subnet as the systems using DHCP. An example would be to reserve addresses with the last octet under 100 for special use (servers, printers, etc.) The DHCP scope could then manage the range from 101 to 254. An alternate method would be to set these machines up with reservations in the DHCP server. That way thier addresses could be managed under DHCP keeping your network managers happy. While at the same time they wouldn't have a lease subject to expiring so the address wouldn't change making it effectively static (unless someone changes the reservation). -- John Stokes Principal Drayton, Drayton & Lamar, Inc. Voice mail: 888 336-0504 --
