[232] in Resnet-Forum
Re: Boot-P Servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert D. Currier)
Wed Apr 13 13:20:11 1994
From: rdc@netcom.duke.edu (Robert D. Currier)
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 13:01:41 -0400
In-Reply-To: Mike.W.Miller.40@nd.edu (Mike!)
"Re: Boot-P Servers" (Apr 13, 11:25am)
To: Mike.W.Miller.40@nd.edu (Mike!), resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
> What about students who are running services dependant on a stable IP
> address? The most acceptable example I can think of would be a WWW or
> Gopher server. There are certainly less legitimate but no less likely
> examples of where a student would want a guaranteed unchanging IP
> address...
>
> Mike!
>
>
>
>-- End of excerpt from Mike!
We have pretty much the same setup...but all addresses *are* stable. The
assignment is based on hardware address and *doesn't* change in our case.
So, services such as you mentioned would/do work just fine. I understand
the problem(s) with "floating" ip addresses, but do you really think it
likely that a resource such as a gopher or www server would be trundled
around campus very much? Sure, you can run Linux on a laptop and tote
it from place to place, but would you really want to? I prefer my
www and gopher servers to be fairly stable...that is, not up and down 5
times a day! :-) :-)
Just my thoughts,
--Bob
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