Non-sequential Windows DHCP Scope

[ekinike]

How can I create a scope of IP addresses in Windows 2000 DHCP if the addresses are not sequential; i.e 172.60.5.1, 172.60.5.53, 172.60.5.52?

Also, if I have an existing scope and I want to add to it, how do I go about doing so without affecting existing users with active leases from that scope?

 

[DThornton123]

The interface for DHCP is designed to assign ranges of addresses and to be able to define exclusion ranges. The assumption is that you have a range of IPs available with minimal existing usage in that range.

So you can create the range that covers all addresses, then define exclusion ranges; or define multiple ranges (scopes).

You can do reservations which conceivably could be used to prevent assignment of specific addresses but that would require a lot of work.