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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Norway.EU.net!nntp.uio.no!nntp.uib.no!nntp-bergen.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!nac.no!ifi.uio.no!news.sics.se!eua.ericsson.se!erinews.ericsson.se!usenet From: Goran Hasse <qdtgh@edsvhs1.ericsson.se> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Unix Flavors and DHCP Date: 13 Feb 1996 07:55:51 GMT Organization: Ericsson Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4fpg67$8t5@erinews.ericsson.se> References: <4fo39l$pa@uwm.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: edsvhs1.ericsson.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3 sun4) X-URL: news:4fo39l$pa@uwm.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:29304 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:14150 In a Unix-envirnoment so many services are relying on the identity on the IP-interface (eg the IP-number) that you will soon run into REAL problem if the identity of the same interface changed all the time. If you only run a terminal emulator or FTP then DHCP might be a good thing - but if you are running more complicated services (rcp, NFS, ...) a DHCP approach is just a bad idea. (In MY opinion) -- ========================================================= G Hasse qdtgh@edsvhs1.ericsson.se