Quoting Michael Stone[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] => ...Or it works like the helpdesk I work on: Someone grabs an IP address, => DHCP gives out that address, user gets an IP conflict. User calls us, we => call net eng, who bounces the static address and leases it to the DHCP user. => Static user calls us, we ask them why they're screwing up the network. They => complain, we offer to remove the computer from their desk and give it to => someone who has a little less free time on their hands :-)... = =Or you could use the debian dhcp daemon, so if someone grabs an ip, =the dhcp server marks it as unavailable and doesn't hand it out. Makes =sense to me... = =Mike Stone
Yeah, makes perfect sense. Why isn't it being done? Because the Microsoft/Novell DHCP servers don't do it (or don't do it easily - haven't dug into them very deeply), so it obviously can't be done... >>--------------------------------------<< => Quoting Greg Frye[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] =[snip] => (Being on the Win95/MSOffice support team can really give you a crappy => outlook on life...) => => Tom => (Another person in a shop that keeps saying, "We can't use Linux - there's => no company to hold responsible if there's problems".) => =Like Microsoft would be held responsible? There aren't enough lawyers =to go after M$. Exactly - and the response to THAT is, "Well... you can still get support from them" (forgetting you have to PAY them for it!). When Oracle announced they were going to release a dist. with their product (so you can buy a "canned" product), they said that it couldn't be as good as the NT version... They're even talking about dumping the RS6000/AIX box here and replacing it with NT, since NT runs so much better and more stable... Anyone know of a non-Dilbert company hiring? :-)
