Nate Duehr wrote: > Derek Broughton wrote: > >>Oooh.. You would have to point that out. Somewhere about 3 months after >>I got _this_ laptop, it occurred to me that I was really supposed to >>report >>the MAC to the network centre, so that they could do that. Of course, I >>never got around to it. Now, I know they'll appreciate knowing about the >>unofficial DHCP server, but they'll still slap my wrists for not telling >>them about the new MAC address :-( >> > If they were worth the money you're probably paying them (sounds like a > large organization with salaries somewhere near the median, but who > knows?), they should have already seen you on the network and talked to > you already.
Well, they're guvermint, but they're far-from-the-center-of-things guvermint, so they don't have the big salaries. But they're administering a network of a thousand-odd machines, with regular visits from people from 'away'. My laptop doesn't log onto the Windows domain, so they don't terribly care. But once a month when it loses the old lease (or everyday, recently because of this problem) I have to fight with it to get a new lease from the right subnet, and if I actually got around to sending them the MAC address it would always end up on the same IP. > And of course, that leads to a bigger picture discussion of one of the > major problems with business and IT -- their managers would have no idea > if they're not technical themselves what the techies are/are-not doing > -- so it's a never-ending cycle... networks half-baked... never done > right... There's a whole lot of that going on :-) -- derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
