"We Need to Change the IP Address..."

[deanwebb]

For DHCP boxes, not an issue. Reboot, bounce the port, ipconfig release and renew, all the same. Get a new IP on the flip side.

For network devices, toooooooooooootally different issue.



And for devices that interoperate with the network and client devices (Why hello there, NAC!), you make one mistake... one mistake... and you got a huge mess on your hands.



Sticking with the networking stuff, ask yourself, if an IP address of a management appliance changed or if the IP of a core router/switch changed, where would you have to replicate all those changes to?