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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] deployment on multiple machines
- From: Phil Driscoll <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:23:22 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <01072411295206.11000@linux>
On Tuesday 24 July 2001 11:20, Christopher Dawkins wrote:
> The big advantage, however, of making your DHCP assignments static is that
> you know that machine number 45 is always the one in the corner and 72 is
> the one at the end of the Library, so when you detect naughty things you
> know immediately where to pounce. You can physically label machines with
> their IP number (or the last byte) and hostname. Makes management so much
> easier than if the addresses change every day.
Indeed - this is why we currently use fixed addresses for all machines. Using
the MAC mapped DHCP would confer the same advantage, but it's another bit of
software which would need to run on the client machines - and they are
already short of RAM.
Cheers
--
Phil Driscoll
> The big advantage, however, of making your DHCP assignments static is that
> you know that machine number 45 is always the one in the corner and 72 is
> the one at the end of the Library, so when you detect naughty things you
> know immediately where to pounce. You can physically label machines with
> their IP number (or the last byte) and hostname. Makes management so much
> easier than if the addresses change every day.
Indeed - this is why we currently use fixed addresses for all machines. Using
the MAC mapped DHCP would confer the same advantage, but it's another bit of
software which would need to run on the client machines - and they are
already short of RAM.
Cheers
--
Phil Driscoll
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