Assigning static IP's - inside or outside of DHCP pool?

[Witterings]

If I'm assigning static IP's to various devices like NAS's, Access Points and set top boxes, if my routers DHCP range of IP's is 1 to 253, should I assign the static ones withing that range or am I best off giving one outside of that range and in which case I guess I can go all the way up to 999?

Any help appreciated!

 

[beers]

Howdy,

I'd assign it outside of the pool so DHCP doesn't allocate it. The max host address in a /24 is .254

I usually keep a small portion of the subnet like .1-.9 as statics and set the pool for .10-.254 for dynamics.

 

[Witterings]

Howdy,

I'd assign it outside of the pool so DHCP doesn't allocate it. The max host address in a /24 is .254

I usually keep a small portion of the subnet like .1-.9 as statics and set the pool for .10-.254 for dynamics.

Brilliant and thanks for that, I may have 2 move a few things around but at least I know "the correct" way for the future

 

[beers]

Was just thinking that your gateway is probably assigned to .254 so make sure that address isn't in the pool.

Otherwise you can pretty much slice it up however you want, I'd just keep them separate since a lot of implementations don't check if it's in use first.

 

[Witterings]

The biggest pain is I've not done it like this before but instead identified the device's assigned IP and then fixed it which means I've used a number up to 143 and quite a few I remeber which I won't if I change them .... that said I don't need 100 dynamic ones so could just set the range from there up.