DHCP and host management

English Network/Internet
1

I have set up a dhcp server thus:

subnet 10.130.24.0
address range 10.130.27.1 - 10.130.27.254

then I have 3 hosts set up with their ethernet hardware addresses

pc1 toplevel 10.130.24.160
pc2 toplevel 10.130.24.161
pc3 toplevel 10.130.24.162

PC 1 works fine as it has never had a dhcp address from this server before the hosts were set up

PC2 and PC2 don’t work. They were originally getting ip addresses from the pool before I set up the hosts. These machines still get the ip address from the pool rather than the ip address allocated from the host.

How can I make sure that hosts that I define will get a fixed ip address rather than from the pool

Ta

Mal

2

They’re probably re-requested the address they had before. Look clientside, what you alter will be OS specific.

3

They are XP Pro - I’ve tried the ipconfig /release and then /renew thingy

Can I stop openSuse giving them back their ( old )ip address and give them the one that I have configured in the hosts management section regardless of what they ask for ?

Ta

Mal

4

Could it have to do with specifying subnet .24 and address range .27? If so, then is the overlapping address range between the “static” dhcp assigned ip addresses and the dhcp “dynamic” assigned ip addresses a problem?