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You should try this:<br />
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Change the &quot;End IP Address&quot; for your scope to 192.168.1.254 (instead of 192.168.0.254)<br />
The subnet mask should be 255.255.254.0<br />
Everything else should stay the same.<br />
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As far as I know this should double the IP's available.<br />
I am not a dhcp expert but it's worth a try.<br />

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Hmm it says it overlaps an existing range or is not valid.
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You may need to change the subnet mask for your system to 255.255.254.0<br />

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Sorry, cancel that last comment.<br />

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hi H4Inf,<br />
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what r-k means is to expand your current DHCP scope from 253 (not 254, because you commonly need to reserve at least another IP for router and/or DHCP server) to a bigger one by adjusting the subnet's mask from 255.255.255.0 to 255.255.254.0 (one higher bit used, which means you may have up to 512 - 3 = 509 DHCP clients).<br />
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so please remove the current DHCP scope, create another new one, with the expanded scope specified, just as what r-k mentioned above.<br />
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hope it helps,<br />
bbao
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Hi Guys,<br />
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Thanks so far,<br />
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I have about 40 servers with statically assigned IP's. This means that I will need to change all of their subnet masks to 255.255.254.0 correct?<br />
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And this will then give me a usable range 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.1.254 correct?<br />
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Cheers,<br />
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Paul.
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Or add the MAC of each server to the DHCP scope, and never worry about making massive changes to local static IPs 
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Excellent I think I have a plan then.<br />
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I will keep the servers statically assigned, in the case that the DHCP server goes down and then the power goes off and comes back... all our servers will be offline! That would not be good.<br />
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I am thinking of using perhaps a 255.255.252.0 subnet mask.<br />
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This should give me 192.168.0.1 -&gt; 192.168.3.254 = 1022 ip addresses, right?<br />
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Then we should never ever run out of IP's again :)<br />
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I will try to implement this about 20 hrs from now.
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I noted down all the reservation details and setup a new scope 255.255.252.0 so I have ~1022 addresses.<br />
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All is working well :-)<br />
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Cheers,<br />
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Paul.
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Thanks. Great to know its working.<br />

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Hi,<br />
<br />
I am new to DHCP. I have a network which is 192.168.0.x range (so only supports 254 machines) and we have about 270 machines :) Thankfully they have not always all been on at once, however lately we are running into troubles.<br />
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I was wondering what the easiest way to assign more ip's. Can I just add an additional scope in DHCP say for 192.168.1.x range? Then when the first scope runs out, it will start allowing people to retrieve IP's from this second scope?<br />
<br />
The 2003 Server I have has 2 network cards, both connected to the same physical network.<br />
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Any ideas would be great... or perhaps something completely different :)<br />
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Cheers,<br />
<br />
Paul.
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Hi,

I am new to DHCP. I have a network which is 192.168.0.x range (so only supports 254 machines) and we have about 270 machines :) Thankfully they have not always all been on at once, however lately we are running into troubles.

I was wondering what the easiest way to assign more ip's. Can I just add an additional scope in DHCP say for 192.168.1.x range? Then when the first scope runs out, it will start allowing people to retrieve IP's from this second scope?

The 2003 Server I have has 2 network cards, both connected to the same physical network.

Any ideas would be great... or perhaps something completely different :)

Cheers,

Paul.

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