[Techtalk] serverless IP assignment?

[Michelle Murrain]

At 11:41 AM 2/11/2002, Malcolm wrote:
>I've considered having the first machine to boot declare itself a dchp
>server, but there's no way of stopping two machines booting simultaneously
>and both declaring themselves the server.

Wouldn't it make the most sense resource-wise, etc. to figure out a way to 
determine what box is the DHCP server, and then go from there, instead of 
having each box search for it's IP address?

What about this idea: Box starts up, it pings an address (say 192.168.1.1) 
and if that address responds, it get's it IP address from that box, which 
is the DHCP server. If it doesn't get a response, it waits a bit longer, 
tries again. If it still doesn't get a response, it then calls itself 
192.168.1.1 and starts up the DHCP server.

You might incorporate a random wait period, so that if two servers were 
turned on at the same exact time, they would be unlikely to start up their 
DHCP servers at the same time.

.Michelle

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