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I'm a novice in networking and was wondering if this is possible. If so, how is it done?
Through my research, the DHCP server can do this job by pinging the IP address first to check if it is already taken before leasing it to a workstation.
Any help would greatly be appreciated!
1Why do you want to do this? – cpast – 2013-01-30T03:28:36.647
1To avoid IP conflicts? – tray – 2013-01-30T03:36:51.957
1What I meant was: If there's a DHCP server, you can just use that, right? If you want to use a static IP, why would there be a conflict? When you manually assign addresses, preventing a conflict is as easy as not assigning two computers the same address (once the static IP is set up, you shouldn't need to change it) – cpast – 2013-01-30T03:40:55.657
Thanks for the clarification. Is it possible to assign a static IP address to a workstation and accidentally have the DHCP server assign that same static IP address to another workstation? – tray – 2013-01-30T03:44:36.997
I believe that that can only happen if the workstation isn't connected to the network at the time. Even so, you can change the DHCP server's range, and make the static IP outside that range (this is what I do with printers at my house: DHCP ends at 192.168.0.99, printers are around 192.168.0.150) – cpast – 2013-01-30T03:46:28.220