Holy cow. How can a large corporation even maintain a network at all without DHCP?

Jesus, even in my little 40-user department that I run, it would be a full time job just keeping on top of all the IP addresses if it weren't for DHCP. I can't fathom how a big company would do it.

Remind me what backwards-ass company you work for again?

Can any of the network guys here give a good reason as to why a big company might choose not to implement DHCP on each of its subnets? Why fixed addressing would outweigh the benefits of DHCP?

I know that this disucssion isn't helping to solve your problem, sorry for getting off on a tangent. I'm just amazed that any network administrator would be masochistic enough to do the fixed address thing.