On Thu, 26 Feb 2015, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to Ed Vance:

 EV> I may have figured out how to keep this XP box getting the .100 IP 
 EV> Address. see my previous message to Ben.

 WvV> Yes. That is how it is supposed to work. The (first) turned on 
 WvV> computer in the network gets the lowest (free) IP nummer in the 
 WvV> DHCP range... 

not always... many linux DHCP servers allocate from the highest down to the
lowest in their assigned dynamic range... i work with them all the time and
cannot count the number of times that i've had to field exactly the
question of why they IPs are being given out
""backwards""... truth is that they are not... the
ordering is dependent on other factors... some of which may be configurable
;) 

)\/(ark