[WinMac] Re: DHCP: to be or not to be?

Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:28:07 -0500

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        Tim Scoff raised some very good points; but there IS a downside: People
who have personal Web servers will have trouble keeping them up. You'll
still need to have assigned fixed IP address' for these machines.

        Another trap is if they try to implement a BootP - style of
DHCP: This is
where you, the user, supply the MAC address. I bumped into this at TCNJ
(The College of New Jersey, formerly Trenton State College), and it was one
gigantic cluster f***.

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        The DHCP client IS pretty good with the MacOS' Open
Transport, so at least
the MacOS users will have fewer support problems.

        In the final analysis, DHCP, **IF** implemented properly, can
be a godsend
for both support staff AND users alike. But there are a LOT of caveats.

        Happy surfing!
        Dan Schwartz

At 09:51 PM 4/11/99 -0500, Lesley wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>My university is slowly shifting to DHCP from static IPs at the behest of
>our support staff. I can accept that life is easier for them (or they think
>it will be) under DHCP, but what's in it for us users?
>
>We have the usual 10baseT TCP/IP network with multiple subnets and mixed
>Mac and PC platforms. Servers are NT, Novell and Unix.
>
> From my reading of this and other lists, I foresee problems for users. I'm
>particularly concerned about Mac users (of which I am one). So do we (PC
>and Mac users) gain or lose by this change? All informed opinions and
>experiences are welcome as I'd like to garner views from all sides of the
>issue.
>
>Regards,
>
>Lesley Vita

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