DHCP and our hosts
Mike McGrath
mmcgrath at redhat.com
Mon Mar 12 21:01:12 UTC 2007
Mike McGrath wrote:
> At present our physical hosts use DHCP and our Xen guests do not. I'd
> like to do one or the other. The only issue we have going completely
> DHCP is that hosts like the proxy boxes require some aliased
> interfaces[1] which isn't really a problem but it's a minor
> inconvenience if someone is looking through the dhcpd.conf file for
> free IP's.
>
> Option 1:
> Completely Static IP's, everywhere. (Except for some network devices?)
>
> Option 2:
> Completely DHCP IP's, except for aliases or devices unable to use DHCP
One side note about option 2, a more robust DHCP environment also allows
for very useful pxe boot.
-Mike
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