DHCP and our hosts

[Mike McGrath]

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
One side note about option 2, a more robust DHCP environment also allows 
for very useful pxe boot.

    -Mike