Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 28 Feb 2000 23:08:11 -0500 (EST) | | From | Gregory Maxwell <> | | Subject | Re: How to survive in a Micro$oft environment?? |
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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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