RE: How many folks are actually using dynamic IP address assignment?

[Quan Nguyen <[e-mail]>]

On Sat, 5 Oct 1996, Krishnan Parameshwaran wrote:

> microsoft uses dhcp to assign ip addresses dynamically for its 55,000+
> clients around the world. we have proactively tried to not hand out
> nailed addresses handed out via dhcp. yes we are having to optimize our
> address utilization on a regular basis. in our case it had been the
> original split up of the available address space and having to change it
> as we grew. changing hosts per subnet(s) also keeps this optimization
> interesting.  yes we watch it closely.

I am just curious to know how people deal with "bogus" DHCP server (i.e.
someone is firing up a "test" DHCP server) which might assign the same
address ranges as the "production" DHCP servers)?

Thanks,

Quan,

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