asked on 10/4/2011

Will statically assigned clients within a DHCP scope cause a problem?

All clients in my environment are currently configured statically. I am in the process of converting to DHCP on my Windows Server 2008 server. What I am wondering is, if I enable a scope within the same network, will the remaining statically assigned clients conflict with DHCP?

Windows Server 2008 DHCP TCP/IP

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Dustin23

10/10/2011

sjklein42

10/4/2011

YES!

BCipollone

10/4/2011

I was always told to set static IP's outside of the scope.

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10/4/2011

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JohnGrunwell

10/4/2011

No, the static ip's will be labeled as used to the rest of the clients using DHCP.

JohnGrunwell

10/4/2011

Also If you have a list of the static ips to computers you can also create reservations if you plan to use IPv4

Dustin23

10/4/2011

ASKER

@ all

Wait, so yes or no? I am not planning on leaving the static addresses permanently. It would just be while I am working to switch the entire network over to DHCP...

sjklein42

10/4/2011

I believe that by default, there will be conflicts, since the DHCP server assumes it has control over the entire range and does not (by default) verify that an address is free.

But if you Enable address conflict detection on the Windows Server, that should allow you to keep the fixed IP address machines going without conflict.

Dustin23

10/4/2011

ASKER

@ sjklleion42

Ohh, ok I see. I will give this a try and see what happens. Thanks for the input!!

Dustin23

10/10/2011

ASKER

This worked!! Enabled Address Conflict Detection and once DHCP was turned on the existing static addresses were not affected. Thanks!!