In article <063FC44B-F86B-4169-A1B4-0794CBAF1C25@microsoft.com>,
"Phil-Video II" <Phil-Video II@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>I have been using an XP Professional box configured with ICS turned on for my
>small office. Recently we have acquired some printers that need their own IP
>address, but it needs to be static, not served by DHCP.
>
>I cant seem to find a way to mark a range of IP's for the DHCP service to
>NOT hand out via DHCP.
>
>Is there a way to do this in XP?
>
>I found on the web some help files that say to use the "netsh DHCP" command,
>but DHCP is not a valid option for netsh on my box.
>
>Thanks in advance,

There's no way to configure the DHCP service on the ICS host or to
reserve a range of addresses.

I think that everything will work OK anyway. As I understand it, the
ICS DHCP server checks to see if anything on the network already has a
specific address (by broadcasting an arp request) before allocating
that address. If it gets a reply, the DHCP server skips that address
and tries to allocate a different one.

It should be fine to assign static addresses in the
192.168.0.2-192.168.0.254 range.
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