Setting up reservation for dual-boot PC in DHCP

Is there any way to set up a DHCP reservation for a dual boot PC with a
single NIC in W2K3? I knew it would have been too easy to simply set up a
single reservation for both the XP and Vista environment. That led to the
wonderful BAD_ADDRESS problem.

Has anyone had any luck in establishing this type of setup?

--
"Hurricane" Andrew
Milford, DE

Reservations in DHCP have nothing to do with the Operating System.
Reservations in DHCP are based on the MAC Address,...the machines has the
same MAC address no matter which OS is running.

The most direct approach is to statically asign the IP# in at least one of
the OS's. It would need to be an Excluded IP# that won't be given out by
DHCP.

--
Phillip Windell
www.wandtv.com

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
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"Hurricane Andrew" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
message news:92B7638E-ACBE-450E-BB45-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Is there any way to set up a DHCP reservation for a dual boot PC with a
> single NIC in W2K3? I knew it would have been too easy to simply set up a
> single reservation for both the XP and Vista environment. That led to the
> wonderful BAD_ADDRESS problem.
>
> Has anyone had any luck in establishing this type of setup?
>
> --
> "Hurricane" Andrew
> Milford, DE

Yeah, I realize that it's OS independent, but I wanted to avoid statically
assigning an IP. The PC in question is a laptop, and will be used in several
different locations in our company. Each of our locations is on a different
subnet (10.10.11.xxx, 10.10.12.xxx, 10.10.13.xxx). Our IP scheme dictates
that IP addresses are issued based on the use of the PC, so that we know the
manager's PC at location 11 will be 10.10.11.21, and at location 17 it will
be 10.10.17.21. Similarly, laptop IP's are issued the same way, with each
individual's laptop being assigned the same final octet.

Since the laptop will be connecting at multiple locations, with a different
3rd octet, we really don't want to set a static IP address, and force the
user to manually change that static IP address depending on the location they
are at.


--
"Hurricane" Andrew
Milford, DE


"Phillip Windell" wrote:

> Reservations in DHCP have nothing to do with the Operating System.
> Reservations in DHCP are based on the MAC Address,...the machines has the
> same MAC address no matter which OS is running.
>
> The most direct approach is to statically asign the IP# in at least one of
> the OS's. It would need to be an Excluded IP# that won't be given out by
> DHCP.
>
> --
> Phillip Windell
> www.wandtv.com
>
> The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
> or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> "Hurricane Andrew" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> message news:92B7638E-ACBE-450E-BB45-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Is there any way to set up a DHCP reservation for a dual boot PC with a
> > single NIC in W2K3? I knew it would have been too easy to simply set up a
> > single reservation for both the XP and Vista environment. That led to the
> > wonderful BAD_ADDRESS problem.
> >
> > Has anyone had any luck in establishing this type of setup?
> >
> > --
> > "Hurricane" Andrew
> > Milford, DE
>
>
>

Then you are probably screwed. This is one negative effect of duel booting.

The only thing I can think of is if the laptop has two nics (like one wired
and one wireless), then each OS could use a different Nic and have the other
Nic disabled.

--
Phillip Windell
www.wandtv.com

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
-----------------------------------------------------

"Hurricane Andrew" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
message news:537B5140-9239-4778-8961-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Yeah, I realize that it's OS independent, but I wanted to avoid statically
> assigning an IP. The PC in question is a laptop, and will be used in
> several
> different locations in our company. Each of our locations is on a
> different
> subnet (10.10.11.xxx, 10.10.12.xxx, 10.10.13.xxx). Our IP scheme dictates
> that IP addresses are issued based on the use of the PC, so that we know
> the
> manager's PC at location 11 will be 10.10.11.21, and at location 17 it
> will
> be 10.10.17.21. Similarly, laptop IP's are issued the same way, with each
> individual's laptop being assigned the same final octet.
>
> Since the laptop will be connecting at multiple locations, with a
> different
> 3rd octet, we really don't want to set a static IP address, and force the
> user to manually change that static IP address depending on the location
> they
> are at.