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Re: [new technologies] Verizon To Switch to DHCP In the next twoProbably getting a bit off topic but it is possible to use DHCP and still have static addresses. It works like this: when a DHCP client requests an address the DHCP server will check the client's MAC address against a configured list and if it appears on that list it will allocate the client a specific IP address reserved for it (the DHCP server has a table mapping MAC addresses to static IP's)
This is different from what most people are familiar with when using DHCP (a pool of addresses that are handed out first-come first-served) but it is a configuration that is used in real environments.
As to why you would do this (rather than just hardcoding the IP into the client and not using DHCP), as other have posted DHCP is more than just the IP, it also can provide the client with the default gateway, DNS configuration and more so rather than hardcoding these you can use the DHCP server to manage them (and change them globally if necessary) |
