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Solve : How to Regain previous IP or (Reserved IP) from the DHCP??

Answer» <html><body><p>Hey everyone.<br/><br/>We have a DHCP on our network,from where most PCs <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/acquire-361595" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ACQUIRE">ACQUIRE</a> the IP add. But some <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/pc-590329" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PC">PC</a> need to keep the same IP add for <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/certain-407894" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about CERTAIN">CERTAIN</a> applications and frequent remote access.  <br/>Recently one of these kind of machines crushed, so i had to perform a clean Win XP Pro installation, this machine had its IP add reserved but when i joined it back to the Domain it acquired a different IP add. My question is: is there anyway i can make it acquire the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/previous-592857" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PREVIOUS">PREVIOUS</a> IP which was reserved? i do know what the IP add is.<br/><br/>We running win srv 2003 R2 Enterprise. all Client Stations OS is Win XP Pro SP3. The lease time is 8hrs.<br/><br/>Appreciate any help.<br/>ThxWith a million combinations of #'s why fight it ? ?<br/>Just assign it a new IP.Thanks Patio.<br/>In fact it already acquired a new IP add, and i thought of doing the same thing, unfortunately the user who manages this PC and its respective application, said there is a strong necessity to retain the previous IP add due to various connection that this machine receives, and he does not want to go around and redo the configuration that is in place. <br/><br/>Since the previous IP add is reserved I'm thinking to assign it manually and see if this resolves the issue.      <br/><br/>Will post back the outcome.<br/><br/>Thanks guys.Just to make sure you are saying that the address has been removed from the DHCP pool? If the address is not reserved you could have a duplicate address on the network and take both systems down. <br/><br/>If the address is reserved then you should be able to <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/remove-1184766" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about REMOVE">REMOVE</a> DHCP from the client and assign the static address that the user is requesting. This will force the client system to only use that assigned address. If your system is so critical that it always needs the same IP address, industry best practices say that it should have a static IP, not DHCP. The DHCP server adds a point of failure that isn't necessary.Thanks guys for all your input, i all i had to do is to assign it a static IP Add, and that solved the issue.<br/><br/>Once again thanks.</p></body></html>


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