Question: IP address assignment

Shane Kerr Shane_Kerr at isc.org
Thu Aug 31 09:21:36 UTC 2006


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David W. Hankins wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 11:35:45AM -0700, Keyvan Moataghed wrote:
>> The server in DHCP version 3 assigns the IP addresses from a given range
>> from higher address to the lower address, is there any possibility to
>> reverse this and assign from low to high.
> 
> Not in the released software, no.
> 
> Someone wrote a patch to do this, you might look in the dhcp-users
> archives.

I'm curious. What is the reason for wanting a specific order in which IP
addresses are given out?

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Shane
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