I would imagine that this is a per admin thing. Personally I have done it both ways. Only drawback is if the lease runs out & your DHCP server is down. I mostly use DHCP reservations nowadays. S From: isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nathan Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 9:34 AM To: ISA Mailing List Subject: [isalist] OT: DHCP and static addresses To you network guys out there... When you give a device a static address, be it a server, switch, printer etc., do you think it is better to hardcode the address into the device or allocate the address using DHCP and the MAC address. Thanks Nathan