How to statically assign IP's to every PC in a small to large business.

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Jon92
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How to statically assign IP's to every PC in a small to large business.

Post by Jon92 » 2018/07/23 23:46:57

In the Windows world you would use a GPO to disable people from configuring adapter settings like IPv4 addressing then you would create address pools for each department or floor can assign OU's and stuff the pool they fit into. <not 100% accurate i don't feel like typing unnessary stuff like i currently am. Thing i wanna know is say you have a small to large buisness and on all the PC's you use CentOs or Fedora, how would you assign static ip's to all them for remote management and other Admin things. would you need to manual edit each Ifcfg-XXXX file? that would be time consuming no? how the heck do Linux companies do it. :?:

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Re: How to statically assign IP's to every PC in a small to large business.

Post by TrevorH » 2018/07/24 06:09:52

Servers use static ip addresses, client machines use DHCP...
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
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Re: How to statically assign IP's to every PC in a small to large business.

Post by Whoever » 2018/07/24 15:01:31

You can either make the IP addresses static on each individual machine (making sure that the addresses assigned are outside the DHCP range), or you can set up pseudo-static IP addresses, where the DHCP server assigns specific addresses based on the MAC address of the DHCP client.

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Post by MartinR » 2018/07/24 16:13:09

Just to add to Whoever's reply; that is typically how clusters with hundreds of diskless machines set themselves up.

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Post by jlehtone » 2018/07/31 06:23:50

Definitely DHCP. DHCP server is a single place, where you register new MAC addresses. All clients (Windows, Linux, OS X) can use that.

Furthermore, the DHCP can be set to reject unregistered clients; clients with unknown MAC will get no IP address. You don't want bypassers to trivially plug their laptop into your company LAN, do you?

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