asked on windows server 2012
Starting to learn a bit more about DHCP and I have a quick question. If I setup an exclusion range of ip addresses do these addresses get removed from distribution AND use or just distribution? I want to pull out 10 addresses for 10 wifi access points I am setting up.
Windows OSWindows Server 2012DHCP
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Iamthecreator OM
DHCP has no control over the validity of IP Addresses. It can only assign addresses you permit it to. The exclusion range(s) won't be served.
DHCP is solely a service to distribute IPs. So if you create an exclusion rule, the IPs that are part of the exclusion would not be distributed by the DHCP server.
It in no way prevents the IPs from being utilized by statically configuring systems/devices to use an ip from the excluded range.
It in no way prevents the IPs from being utilized by statically configuring systems/devices to use an ip from the excluded range.
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For routers and access points, we use Static IP addresses outside the DHCP scope entirely.
For printers (which have a habit of changing) we use Reserved IP addresses.