Change IP Range

[hande]

We have recently purchased another company , which has a different IP range to ours. They currently use static ip addresses and I wish to change them over to a new range 192.168.99.0 our existing network ranges are 192.168.98.* and 192.168.97.* is this possible. I wish to implement a dhcp server as their network is really unorganised and no one seems to have a clue what machine is on what IP address.

The Plan is to have a Range from 192.168.99.1 - 10 Servers and everything else on DHCP does this seem sensible? They are running a mixture of W98, 2K, NT kit

Many Thanks in advance,

 

[Whoheard]

Are both networks co-located? Are they connected to each other through a router? IF there is a router joining the two together, then you need two DHCP scopes. Routers break up broadcast domains and a DHCP broadcast from one segment will not be broadcast to another network. Routers forward DHCP broadcast to a DHCP server via unicast--destined to only the DHCP server. Or, if the router is the DHCP server, it replys to the request.

To do what you described with the IP address (1-10 for server...)is not a good idea. Servers should never be DHCP enabled. In addition a DHCP scope cannot be broken up in that manner. You must have another scope.

Hope this helps.

Bob