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Old 10-17-2003, 04:18 PM   #4
Bungleau
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Join Date: October 29, 2001
Location: Western Wilds of Michigan
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DHCP allows any client to connect into the network. Some people disable it for security, because if you try to use an address that someone else already has, collisions happen and are tracked.

If you do want to make sure that one machine is always at the same address, you just have to tell it what address to be, as Night Stalker said.

Personally, I prefer DHCP. It's less hassle for me, the part-time sys admin. One of the reasons is that if you have to change your IP address as I recently did, you don't have to change all the computers.

My recent change? I used 192.168.1.x for my internal network, and one of my customers uses the same !#$% thing. I couldn't connect into their network via VPN because someone else had the address. Switched my network to something different (192.168.74.x), and the problem disappeared instantaneously-like.
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