Ricky Beam wrote:
>
> On 28 Feb 2000, david parsons wrote:
> >Olaf Kirch <okir@caldera.de> wrote:
> >> For
> >>some mysterious reason, many site admins do seem to prefer to walk around
> >>and configure their machines manually.
> >
> > The users (particularly developers who know just a little bit too
> > much) think that dhcp is a second-class protocol and want to get
> > static addresses because their machines Are! Important! Too!
>
> I know admins on both sides of the fence... those on the static side changed
> that view quickly when presented with managing several hundred machines in
> more than one building (spanning multiple states.)
Yeah, but if the users don't want those second-class dhcp addresses,
sometimes the admins don't get the luxury of choosing to switch over.
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david parsons \bi/ An early friend of the evil MS protocol of the year.
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