From: Jeff Shultz 

Gregg Nemesure wrote:

> "Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message
> news:3f9ecfae$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> Meanwhile, it sounds a bit like you've reinvented the wheel - if you
>> want to tie a specific address to a specific machine, you can either
>> give it that address as a static one (which apparently you don't want)
>> or configure DHCP to hand out that address only to the MAC address of
>> the adapter.
>>
>
> Not really reinventing the wheel. The two machines are actually single
> board computers operating in an environment in which there is no DHCP
> server, and the two must be able to decide for themselves, based on mutual
> agreement at run-time, which will get the single IP address. This is for a
> failover mechanism.
>
> Gregg

They both grab it, the first to get the "someone else has it"
message releases.

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Jeff Shultz

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