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PR: IBM Announces Beta Windows Clients for Dynamic IP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy Sipples)
Wed Oct 8 09:07:37 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 08 Oct 1997 06:07:00 -0400
From: tsipple@us.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples)
Reply-To: tsipple@us.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples)
Reply-to: tsipple@us.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples)
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IBM has released beta test versions of Dynamic IP client support for Windows
95 and Windows NT. The new client support allows Windows 95 and Windows NT to
not only receive numeric IP addresses dynamically but also to "resync" those
dynamic addresses with the Dynamic Domain Name Server (DDNS) capabilities in
OS/2 Warp Server. The beta versions are available on the Internet at
ftp://service.software.ibm.com/ps/products/tcpip/beta/dhcp95nt/client.
Dynamic IP capabilities relieve the burden of managing TCP/IP addresses for
each system on a network. While DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
provides numeric TCP/IP addresses dynamically, it's only half the solution.
Modern networks demand that these numeric addresses match to plain language
addresses, and that TCP/IP name servers translate the plain language names
into numeric addresses. Without Dynamic IP, it's inconvenient (at best) to
associate ever-changing numeric addresses with the names in an ordinary static
name server.
OS/2 Warp Server (and OS/2 Warp Version 4) have had full Dynamic IP client and
server capabilities for quite some time. This beta client support for Windows
95 and Windows NT extends Dynamic IP client capabilities to those platforms,
and the software supports the Dynamic IP servers in IBM's OS/2 Warp Server and
AIX. Now network managers can save enormous amounts of time and money by
using IBM's Dynamic IP servers to automate their TCP/IP networks, providing
significant benefits even to networks consisting of non-IBM systems.
IBM's Dynamic IP implements the open, secure Internet standards for DDNS and
DHCP, reflecting IBM's continuing commitment to provide state-of-the-art
network computing enhancements.
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