DHCP and our hosts

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Monday 12 March 2007 03:55:55 pm 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
>
> Option 3:
> Leave it as it is
>
> Note: DHCP addresses are statically mapped, its not like bastion's IP
> address will change regularly.
>
> Honestly I don't care but I'd vote for Option 2 because it requires the
> least amount of work / risk right now  Though if someone has a
> compelling reason for Option 1 or 3, let me know.
I vote 2  with a comment in the dhcpd.conf file stating what ips are staticly 
assigned and why.

-- 
Dennis Gilmore, RHCE