Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 22:32:39 -0800 From: "Jeffery T. White" <zellion@cyberwind.com> To: "Chris Coleman" <root@bb.cc.wa.us>, <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ipx to ip routing Message-ID: <199611210631.WAA14700@shell.wco.com>
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> And we want to eliminate the need for so many ip addresses so that we > can get rid of all the ip address conflicts that we can't seem to trace > down. Unless you have more machines than IP numbers DHCP really is a pretty good solution. I set it up at work and it was great. Not only could you assign IP address that way but you can distribute default gateway, DNS, netmask and all kinds of other IP config data from the DHCP server. That way when you maybe change a name server or something you only have to update it in one place. We used the Windoze NT DHCP Service so I don't know first hand how the BSD ones are but I can only assume they are as good or better<g>. The only down side of switching to DHCP is you have to reconfigure all the existing machines pretty much at once since your addresses are probably all over right now and the DHCP server will assign them sequentially from the blocks you allocate. Of course if users still insist on entering an address that will mess things up. Not as bad as before though because you will have the DHCP data from which you can get a list of all the machines with _legal_ addresses. The missing machines either haven't been turned on within the expiration period or are owned by users who require their little fingers to be broken :-)... | Jeffery T. White | email: zellion@cyberwind.com | | Cyberwind, The wind knows... | http://www.cyberwind.com
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