Messages in this thread | | | From | david parsons <> | Subject | Re: How to survive in a Micro$oft environment?? | Date | Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:02:28 -0800 (PST) |
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Ricky Beam wrote: > > On 28 Feb 2000, david parsons wrote: > >Olaf Kirch <okir@caldera.de> wrote: > >> For > >>some mysterious reason, many site admins do seem to prefer to walk around > >>and configure their machines manually. > > > > The users (particularly developers who know just a little bit too > > much) think that dhcp is a second-class protocol and want to get > > static addresses because their machines Are! Important! Too! > > 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.)
Yeah, but if the users don't want those second-class dhcp addresses, sometimes the admins don't get the luxury of choosing to switch over.
____ david parsons \bi/ An early friend of the evil MS protocol of the year. \/
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