DHCP and our hosts

[Warren Togami]

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?)
> 

Isn't this the least error prone option?

(Each box keeps the correct network configuration during a failure of 
the DHCP server.  It cannot be disrupted by another DHCP server that 
could possibly come online, in a Xen guest or somewhere.)


Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com