DHCP usage
Having DHCP enabled in a corporate network setting is pretty much “de rigeur”. With the abundance of computers on these networks you pretty much have to. I say pretty much simply because you don’t “have” to. At the cost of some time at computer setup, and then not using DHCP you can take a large step towards securing your internal network. It is not foolproof of course and there are ways around it, but it is a good first step. Do any of you guys DHCP disabled on your corporate routers?
Mark Wood Says:
July 11th, 2006 at 11:22 am
Yes. We do. We have 6 sites across the globe. This is the largest of the 6 and we have approx 1000 users here. We go strictly Static. As you said in the article it does take up a little time with the setup. Along with keeping track with who has what IP. We have a Inventory Database that we created which stores all IP info for each PC. But i cant explain the time this has saved us in the long run. We have no IP security worries of any kind.
Adam Holthouse Says:
July 26th, 2006 at 1:01 am
We use to run static IP’s 190 different machines and network devices but even at this small level it was hard to manage. Old records of who had what IP etc were out dated and it was hard to know if the current IP was in use or not.
Switched to DHCP.