Re: Static IP Vs DHCP

From: Moe Trin (ibuprofin_at_painkiller.example.tld)
Date: 03/04/05

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    In article <112cd1emtsves33@news.supernews.com>, T. Sean Weintz wrote:

    >Moe Trin wrote:
    >> In article <1129sp22jdqf2d5@news.supernews.com>, T. Sean Weintz wrote:

    >>>Less functional? There are many boot parameters that can ONLY be
    >>>configured via DHCP!
    >>
    >>
    >> Such as? Remember, most of us are not running diskless workstations
    >> any more.

    The question I was asking is what are these magical boot parameters that
    can ONLY be configured via DHCP.

    >All three of my last jobs used thin clients

    That's fine.

    >When doing a mass rollout of several hundred workstation, do you REALLY
    >want to hard code the addresses on several hundred DOS boot disks just
    >so you can load the image?

    First, I'm not using DOS (or windoze), so we really do install all the
    software ourselves. Not a big deal - the systems are set up on a maintenance
    network, by booting to a floppy, then running a network application that
    copies a generic image from a server. When done, we then go in and set
    the network parameters (hostname, address, network mask, gateway IP
    nameservers, and NIS domain). The system is then rebooted, and the
    BIOS is set to boot from the hard disk. For _most_ of the systems, that
    reboot is when we also physically remove the floppy drive, and then
    install a mechanical security lock on the case.

    >Even so, wheteher this functionality is used or not is not at issue -
    >you stated that DHCP had less functionality than static addresses.

    No, _I_ didn't. I want to know what it is that can not be manually
    configured, but can "ONLY" be configured by DHCP.

    >So the question is, what can static addressing accomplish that DHCP cannot?

    Other way round. What can DHCP accomplish that static can not. In case you
    haven't noticed, we don't allow our hosts to go walkies, and we certainly
    don't allow our users to muck about with the system files.

            Old guy

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