<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Andale Mono; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'><font face="'Andale Mono'" size="2">Not that this is exactly on-topic for this thread, but I would like to make sure I am correctly understanding...</font><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Andale Mono'; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Andale Mono'; font-size: 10pt; ">It seems that in DHCPv6 that fixed-address6 DOES remove the IP from the pool. man dhcpd.conf:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Andale Mono'; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div><font face="'Andale Mono'" size="2">"</font><font size="2" face="'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">Any IPv6 addresses given to hosts with fixed-address6 are excluded from the range6, as are IPv6 addresses on the server itself.</font><font face="'Andale Mono'" size="2">"</font></div><div><font face="'Andale Mono'" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="'Andale Mono'" size="2">That seems pretty clear, but given that this is NOT the case in DHCPv4, I just wanted to clarify.<br></font><br><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Andale Mono'; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><hr id="zwchr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Andale Mono'; font-size: 10pt; "><blockquote style="border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><b>From: </b>"Simon Hobson" <dhcp1@thehobsons.co.uk><br><b>To: </b>"Users of ISC DHCP" <dhcp-users@lists.isc.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, March 6, 2012 9:25:22 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: Fixed address inside dynamic range<br><br>Nuno Marques wrote:<br><br>>Isn't there any option so the dhcp server doesn't give a dynamic <br>>client one already used fixed address?<br><br>No<br><br>>It would be a real pain to reconfigure all my networks (which have <br>>lots of hosts inside dynamic range)<br><br>You reap the reward for an unplanned (not well managed ?) network.<br><br>>Any thoughts?<br><br>You may want to consider reserved leases. These act like normal <br>leases, but cannot be re-allocated to another client.<br>So you get the benefit of having a "fixed" address for a client, but <br>also the advantages of following the normal lease lifecycle (so DNS <br>updates work for example).<br><br>-- <br>Simon Hobson<br><br>Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed<br>author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as<br>Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e-books.<br>_______________________________________________<br>dhcp-users mailing list<br>dhcp-users@lists.isc.org<br>https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/dhcp-users<br><br></blockquote><br></div></div></body></html>