Yes there is that, although the renewal process for DHCP should mean that
this may not happen.

Even so, as mentioned before, an exclusion should be in place for Servers
ideally!

Regards

Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator 

EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard.Hall [mailto:Richard.Hall at ingenta.com] 
Sent: 13 June 2006 09:30
To: Carl Mathews
Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Can Netbackup work on a DHCP network


Carl,

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Wilkinson, Tim wrote:

> It's perfectly fine to use DHCP for Windows servers as long as you use 
> reservations. The good thing about using DHCP for reserved IPs is if 
> the network configuration changes, you don't have to manually update 
> the values on every box as it can be done through DHCP.
[...]

And the bad thing is that, if your DHCP server happens to be dead when one
of its clients tries to renew its lease, ...

</0.02>

Richard

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