Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 00:21:57 -0500 From: Alex Huppenthal <alex@comsys.com> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DHCP Lease on Ethernet Message-ID: <31E73275.4745@comsys.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960712223337.829A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Thanks for your useful remarks Doug. For those wishing to examine DHCP and IP number management on Ethernets from both a technical and administrative perspective check out: http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov:81/ltpcf/ This is by far the best single source of information on the subject I've discovered. As we add more and more commercial sites to our backbone, we are being asked to help these sites manage their IP number usage. This question was raised by several schools in our area. They would like to place 500-1000 computers on the net, but understand the need to manage IP namespace. Most of these systems are not in use simultaneously. How do Universities manage their IP namespace? Dedicated IP ? IP lease? What is U0 going to use to manage the numbers? -Alex Doug White wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Jul 1996, Alex Huppenthal wrote: > > > I'm looking for a DHCP server for FreeBSD that will provide a IPCP > > lease to a hosts on an Ethernet? Can PPP be config'd to do this? > > Huh? Do you mean just straight DHCP or dynamic addressing over PPP? Or > make DHCP leases when PPP wants to dynamically assign an address? > > > I must admit it's been a few months since I read the docs, but my > > recollection is that there is no support for Dynamic Host Configuration > > Protocol over Ethernet. > > What? I sure hope so; the UO is going to DHCP IP allocation this > summer. DHCP is supposed to be BootP backwards-compatible (or similar). > > > We have a client who has 500 hosts that are on and off the net all > > day. There is no reason to fix IP addresses for each workstation, > > they should simply get one from the free pool on the server. > > I know of at least 2 DHCP servers that are in the ports collection, one > of which is the WIDE server. > > DHCP client for FreeBSD is another matter entirely. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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