[WinMac] RE: More Questions on Mac DHCP
Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Mon, 26 Apr 1999 13:12:38 -0500
See below
At 12:47 PM 4/26/99 -0500, PetersJB@nswccd.navy.mil wrote:
>David,
>
>Within our organization DHCP was implemented less for sharing a limited
>range of IP address and more for "managing" IP addresses and avoiding some
>of the configuration problems associated with static IP addresses
>(duplicates, misconfigured DNS addresses, etc.). With properly configured
>DHCP servers and clients, a good portion of those problems disappear.
>
>Apparently it was within the capabilities of our DHCP server to provide
>leases on the basis of the hardware (NIC) address. In this way the IP
>address is always translatable to a specific NIC and computer. With this
>arrangement, IP address are essentially static although conventional static
>addressing is not used. The result is a situation in which IP-to-hostname
>translations can be used as before.
This is actually BootP, rather than true DHCP. When you map a MAC (MAC
(all caps) = Media Access Control) address to an IP address, which can be
useful for security, you have actually implemented BootP!
[snip]
Cheers!
Dan
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