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Re: Local DHCP Server?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan McIndoe Hunt)
Wed Jul 1 13:12:13 1998
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 13:11:14 -0400
To: Bob Kaynor <bkaynor@MIT.EDU>, ntpartners@MIT.EDU
From: Jonathan McIndoe Hunt <jmhunt@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980701113833.00f6a370@po7.mit.edu>
Hi Bob,
I just spoke to Network Operations and you should NOT setup a local DHCP
server. If you really need to use a private DHCP server, then I can assist
facilitating a contract for a private network.
From Network Operations:
We expect all hosts on MIT.net which require IP
services to have assigned addresses.
In addition, our model for DHCP service for registered
users requires MIT's main servers to respond to all
DHCP queries on public networks (which B12 is). This
would mean they'd have to contract for a private network
to run their own DHCP service as we already provide
DHCP for the B12 network.
End of information from Network Operations.
The MIT DHCP servers will at least a portion of the time beat out any local
DHCP server that is setup on the subnet. In this case, if these machines
are not registered for MIT's DHCP, they will not work on the network and
will require a restart. DHCP does not allow for a specific DHCP server to
be specified, so it is random chance of which server responds first and how
many times the machines will need to be restarted.
I would recommend that a specific IP is assigned for each of these machines
so that they can work on the network.
Thanks,
Jonathan Hunt
At 11:38 AM 7/1/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Any tips for implementing a local DHCP server in our (dept) domain? We
>have a few stations which need IP services only on occasion and I'd like to
>have them share address resources.
>
>-RKK
>
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Jonathan M. Hunt
Departmental Computing Support
E40-335 x3-0172
http://web/is/dept-comp/
