[53] in Resnet-Forum
address servers for campus groups
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (paul@atlas.abccomp.oz.au)
Tue Nov 16 20:02:34 1993
From: paul@atlas.abccomp.oz.au
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1993 11:28:37 -0500
To: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
This sounds like a good use for our Dynamic RARP server. With the high
turnover of machines, managing a conventional RARP or BOOTP database would
be very time consuming, and every time a new machine was connected the
owner would have to wait for the database to be updated before they could join.
With our RARP server you only need to assign a "pool" of addresses, which are
allocated on an as-needed basis, and recycled if they are not used for a while.
also it is unlikely that all ports will be in use all the time - with TRARP you
only need to reserve as many addresses as will be simultaneously active, not one
for every possible host, active or not, conserving address space.
Right now we're selling it with our stack, at about $100 US. Email
'info@abccomp.oz.au' for details and/or a demo copy.
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