<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I did not explain myself. Suppose you have a large network of machines and containers, all with public IPs, not private. You constantly bring up new containers and need to assigning new IPs. You either scan the network each time you need a new IP or use DHCP to give you one and then you change that IP to static. My industry only uses public IPs.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 5:05 PM Andrey Repin <<a href="mailto:anrdaemon@yandex.ru">anrdaemon@yandex.ru</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Greetings, Saint Michael!<br>
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> It is a common practice to trust the DHCP server to keep track of free IPs<br>
> in a large network, like /21, and once the DHCP assigns an IP address, we<br>
> adopt it as static and flag it a such in the router. <br>
> Otherwise, you need to scan the whole network every time.<br>
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Why scan? You just say that "this IP block is assigned statically" and call it<br>
a day.<br>
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-- <br>
With best regards,<br>
Andrey Repin<br>
Wednesday, March 25, 2020 23:50:46<br>
<br>
Sorry for my terrible english...<br>
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