[WinMac] Re: DHCP
Alex Dearden(pata[at]tampabay.rr.com)
> Second, if you have a laptop and the university has multiple >subnets you can take it to any room with an active network port and >plug it in and have all of it's settings automatically configured for >the subnet that you are on. This is something that is starting to >happen where I work and to date our solution has been to configure >many laptops with two static IP addresses which doesn't always work >perfectly. DHCP is a much smoother solution for the end user, and if >it's implemented properly you won't notice when you go from one >subnet to another, everything will just work.
DHCP can be very beneficial when setup properly.
However, for Windoze (and *nix) users, be very careful of your HOSTS
On the Macs you don't have that problem because, even though the Macs can
Alex Dearden
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