From: Neil Francis (ccsnjf@bath.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Jul 10 2000 - 06:04:58 CDT
Hi Peter,
>Also, our registered user pool of IP addresses is greater than the
>number of anticipated machines on any particular subnet. That way
>students will most likely get the same IP address everytime they get a
>lease from that DHCP server.
Yes - I think that's the approach we will be taking.
>I think you would like what we have planned for NetReg 2.0...
>We are going campus-wide with DHCP and NetReg'ing it all, however, we
>need the ability to give static addresses to some machines. NetReg 2
>will allow you to dynamically assign static IPs based on MAC address.
This is interesting. We actually do this with a part of our campus. We run
version 2 of the ISC DHCP server and use this to serve non routable IP
addresses to ~500 of our public (fixed) PCs. We know the MAC addresses of
all the NICs in these PCs so effectively just create a large look-up table
of MAC<->IP address. For accountability reasons this makes sense.
BTW - how reliable do you take the ISC DHCP server to be? It seems this is
the key part of the service to keep things running. How many servers do you
run for your current service and how many would you run for the whole
campus - for resilience reasons.
Regards
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Neil Francis
n.j.francis@bath.ac.uk
Tel: (44) 122 532 3571
Bath University Computing Services
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