From: "Gregg Nemesure" 

"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

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