ip / dhcp question

[billb]

billb said:

loaf said: billb - did you get it sorted? not yet - have just taken over from old IT Manager who's still here and to chicken to change anything without ok from support company will try it when he's gone!

for the sake of completion thought i'd let u know extending the existing ip range worked fine rather than adding a new scope - has taken till now for the old IT manager to bugger off so I could change it - thanks for the help chaps.

[danielson]

agent006 said:

In answer to the lease question, i bid 8 days (the MS default i think) and 2 hours for the test setup. You didn't ask me though.

8 days for an IP lease? er no dont think you should really! what if you have a laptop user visit another office for a day, wont be picking up a new IP for the new subnet and will confuse the hell out of your support staff..

[206xsi]

As I am literally just revising for my Networking MCP could I also add that you could have created a new scope and then a superscope

PS I'm one of those IT people who knows nothing about networking - I work in disaster recovery/software support!

[_DJ_]

Well....You could setup a different class id for those laptop machines and define a shorter lease time if necessary. Best of both worlds (assuming you have a standard build for all laptops etc).

DJ