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DateMon, 28 Feb 2000 23:08:11 -0500 (EST)
FromGregory Maxwell <>
SubjectRe: How to survive in a Micro$oft environment??
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Ricky Beam wrote:

> I know admins on both sides of the fence... those on the static side changed
> that view quickly when presented with managing several hundred machines in
> more than one building (spanning multiple states.)
>
> I gave a talk at the Piedmont Linux Users Group (PLUG a Wake Forest Univ.)
> last year on IP address management and address recovery -- DHCP, static
> address translation, dynamic address translation, and IP masq. They seemed
> to be impressed by the capabilities of DHCP. Once more people learn what it
> is, how it works, and how valuable a tool it truely is, people will no longer
> fear it. DHCP _really_ isn't that evil and can even be setup to hand out
> "static" addresses. (Altho' you need to know the machine's MAC address to
> do that or use an "auto-learn"ing server -- it remembers who it gave the
> adress to and always gives that address back to it.)

Without dynamic DNS, DHCP is almost useless on non-winbox networks. Some
people like to remotly admin their systems.


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