Suppose you are the network manager for Central University, a
medium-size university with 13,000 students. The university has 10
separate colleges (e.g., business, arts, journalism), 3 of which are
relatively large (300 faculty and staff members, 2,000 students, and 3
buildings) and 7 of which are relatively small (200 faculty and staff,
1000 students, and 1 building). In addition, there are another 2,000
staff members who work in various administration departments (e.g
library, maintenance, finance) spread over another 10 buildings. There
are 4 residence halls that house a total of 2,000 students. Suppose
the university has the 128.100.xxx.xxx address range on the Internet.
How would you assign the IP addresses the various subnets? How would
you control the process by which IP addresses are assigned to
individual computers? You will have to make some assumptions to answer
both questions, so be sure to state your assumptions.

Use a DCHP server to auto-assign ip's to the workstations. You can
have the DCHP server configure the workstations virtually any way you
want including:

- Based on MAC Address
- Based on Location
- Based on Time of Day

The possibilites are endless.

Here are some sites related to DCHP:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DHCP

http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/linux-hn/dchp.htm

http://www.umich.edu/~lannos/windows/w2k-dhcp.html