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 ;)    
      
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