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By Homer Simpson Instructor at Large ·
If i use ARP to reserve an IP for address for a particular MAC address, what is the advantage to using reservations in DHCP in Windows 2000. Should my entries in ARP show up in DHCP? Currently they do not. Why?

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by Some Guy in Seattle In reply to arp and dhcp

Reserving an IP for a particular MAC can be useful for a device that may be moved, switched off for some length of time, or has a DNS/NetBIOS name matched to the IP, or for whatever reason makes it inconvenient to keep a static IP actually on the machine itself.

Your ARP entries are local to the machine you put them on and won't show on other machines.

Hope that helps,

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by DC1 In reply to arp and dhcp

You would normally use reservations i DHCP for printers, CD Towers, or other devices that you wouldn't want the IP address to keep changing on.

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