[X-Newbies] Networking

[Eugene Lee]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 09:11:29AM +0100, Chris Walker wrote:
: 
: I'm setting up a mixed network - 1 Mac, 1 PC and two printers.  Both
: printers are to be accessible from either computer. This will be set up
: using manual (fixed) IP addresses.
: 
: Some points:
: 
: Do the IP addresses need to be consecutive or can they be more or less
: random within a given range - 10.0.0.X or whatever?

Random.

: In the OSX networking panel it offers DHCP with a manual address which
: seems to offer the possibility of conflict if the router tried to assign
: the same IP elsewhere, or am I missing something?

The DHCP server will realize that the machine wants its own specific
IP address and should remove that address from the pool of addresses,
so that it doesn't assign that IP address to something else.  This
option is available because a computer can still take advantage of
learning the local network's other settings (default router, domain,
DNS, etc.) via DHCP but has special access via a reserved, fixed IP
address (e.g. DMZ host in a firewalled environment, IPsec or some VPN
thing that requires static IP addresses on both endpoints).


-- 
Eugene Lee