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Since I run the DHCP service, including its registration piece, I would like to better understand what makes this a burdensome process. Note that you or your IT staff can take this burden away from your users, by registering these laptops before you check them out to your users. If you go this route, I recommend using a departmental NetID for that purpose (you may want to obtain an id just for use by the IT staff). The one catch here is that the registrations normally expire after 90 days inactivity, and that is inactivity as seen by the central campus DHCP server, i.e., inactivity in using the wired network port on campus. If you're interested in having the default expiration set to something other than 90 days for a departmental id, you can send a note with that request to "[log in to unmask]", and that expiration can be adjusted. Doug On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 12:21:45PM -0500, Scott Smith wrote: > I'm trying to figure out a way to let our pool of laptops be mobile on > campus without having to register each one individually with the DHCP > server. > > Our laptops get used in a variety of ways, from folks needing to take work > home to running our information desks at Benefits events for Open > Enrollment periods, to giving retirement vendor presentations here in the > Nisbet Building. > > Our users complain that it is difficult or impossible to get connectivity > over the wired MSU Campus network, which usually means they don't know how > to deal with DHCP (or don't want to). We do have wireless here, but some > of the vendors don't want to use it because it isn't secure, and they are > dealing with employees personal information during their meetings. > > We have tried to use XP's alternate configuration, but because it detects a > DHCP server when plugged into the wired network, it will never switch over > to the static IP configuration. > > What I'm trying to avoid is having to reconfigure TCP/IP on every laptop > for the needs of the user that is checking it out. -- Doug Nelson, Network Manager | [log in to unmask] Academic Computing and Network Services | Ph: (517) 353-2980 Michigan State University | http://www.msu.edu/~nelson/