> ehrm.. yes, you can do that. but why bother? use DHCP and all will be
> well..
The reason for manual IP assignment is so that we can find out the
"registered' owner of the machine. We have a relatively small network,
approx. 50 clients only. It's more of a 1-to-1 correspondence, so it keeps
things simple.
> as an aside, both Solaris and IRIX have GUI tools that pop up a notify box
> if the IP the machine is using is being used by another machine (something
> like "the machine with MAC address xx:yy:zz:aa:bb has a conflicting IP
> address with this machine").
This also pops up in the other OS as well.
The reason why I wanted to know is that sometimes some people switch IPs to
for whatever purposes they might have. And at times, both network interfaces
(usually Windows clients) are shutdown. In the end, the registered owner
complains because he/she is unable to access the network. Thus, we'd like to
know who the culprit (IP switcher) is and apply sanctions if need be.
gino ledesma
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