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From: gienger@iris.rz.uni-konstanz.de (Pascal Gienger)
Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
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Thumper! (thumper@vfr.interceptor.com) wrote:
: In a small situation, yes. but scale it up to a company with 35 -250 people
: where there are laptops being dropped in and out and computers being added all
: the time. Then it becomes a far bigger pain in the butt. DHCP makes the
: client end simple, they just have to click on one choice (to use DHCP). Also,
Is that an reason against TCP/IP?
We used bootp for many years now at our university for exactly that purpose.
Everybode run fine, until this ()§$&//&/(&(/-M$-company decided not to
include bootp in their Wincrap TCP/IP package.
But there is still the possibility to compile and install dhcp (it's free).
Pascal
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