Reserving the same mac address twice

[emozley]

Hi,

I have got IIS set up on a server. This server has got one network card and its main IP address is 192.1.10.107. I have a website called Intranet that I have given a separate IP address 192.1.10.108. I have created a host record in DNS and also reserved this in DHCP.

I am now in the process of re-developing the intranet and so I want to call this intranet2 and it will sit on the same server as the first intranet. I am going to make the IP address of this 192.1.10.109 and I have created a record in DNS.

The problem that I am having is that I can't reserve the IP address 192.1.10.109 because the mac address is the same as the reservation for 192.1.10.108 as the server has only one network card.

Is there a way round this or am I going about it completely the wrong way?

Thanks very much

Ed

 

[markdmac]

It sounds like you are trying to use DHCP for your server IPs. Don't do that. Change your DHCP scope and leave a few addresses for servers not within the scope. So based on your above post, start the DHCP scope at 192.1.10.115 to allow you room for expansion.

Assign your servers and printers a static IP. Then there will be no reason to have to reserve the address.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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