Subnetting Your Addresses; Assigning Addresses Manually; Representing Addresses In Edirectory; Restricting Address Assignment To Clients - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

Subnetting Your Addresses

Assigning Addresses Manually

Representing Addresses in eDirectory

Restricting Address Assignment to Clients

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Novell DNS/DHCP Management Utility Administration Guide
One of the more difficult configuration tasks concerns configuring your
routers if you have multiple subnets. Each might require one or more subnets,
depending on your router configuration. Create a Subnet object for each LAN
segment that requires dynamic IP address assignment.
Your site might have devices, such as servers and printers, that have addresses
assigned by means other than DHCP. Assign addresses to these devices
manually.
You also must provide these devices with any specific configuration
information they might require. If you want to provide configuration using
DHCP, the device must be capable of acting as a DHCP client. You can assign
a static address to a device and still provide configuration information using
DHCP.
To ensure that the assigned addresses are not used by DHCP, use the DNS/
DHCP Management Utility to exclude the addresses from assignment. You
can use the utility to exclude single addresses or entire ranges from address
assignment.
IP addresses are represented by IP Address objects under Subnet container
objects. Novell DNS/DHCP Services stores address information and attributes
of these objects, such as hostnames, hardware addresses, the time when an
address lease will expire, and fully qualified domain names (FQDNs), in
eDirectory. You can view this information using the DNS/DHCP Management
Utility.
By using static address assignment, you can ensure that a device, capable of
acting as a BOOTP or DHCP client, receives the same address from the DHCP
server each time it is started. You can also explicitly exclude an address
assignment to a device based on the device's hardware address. This is done
by setting DHCP Global Preferences. To invoke the DHCP Global
Preferences window, click DHCP Global Configuration > DHCP Global
Preferences.