On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:18 AM, William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: >> About the only time you'd strictly *need* dynamic configuration in an >> OOB is when directly connecting it to a commodity Internet link. If >> you're willing to give your poorly secured and rarely updated OOB a >> public IP address, you're a braver man than I am. If you are that >> "brave" then you'll need a more robust set of dynamic configuration >> tools than just the ones you've listed and you'll also need a dynamic >> dns client or some other mechanism for the the OOB to let you know >> what addresses it ended up on. > > it's possible that he's thinking of a world where your dhcp is not > 'dynamic' but a management system which can keep all the other bits of > information updated (and easily updatable!) for the remote nodes: > ip address > def-gw > dns servers > > for instance.
Sure, but in that scenario you don't *need* a dhcp system, it's merely a "nice to have." Hence a P2 not a P1. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
