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> At 10:26 AM 1/27/97 -0500, you wrote: > >Has anyone out there used DHCP to obtain IP addresses. DHCP is a Microsft > >rpotocol to dynamically assign IP addresses to a client. Has anyone > >implemented it in Lunux yet. > > No no no no Microsoft didn't invent it. In a meeting last year, a senior executive from Microsoft claimed that Microsoft developed the DHCP protocol. > There's a DHCP server written by someone in Japan that runs on Linux. I > don't think there are any clients but since the code is Net3 it shouldn't > be hard. > Highway1 won't give you an ip number, eh? Actually, I am not so sure. Since the system is set up to be connected 24 hours/day, I effectively have a permanent (kind of) IP address. As long as you keep the cable modem online, the IP address seems to persist. Since I have no meetings this week (that I am planning on attending), I should have some time to play with the net. -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ Jerry Feldman Digital Unix Development Environment Digital Equipment Corp. (work)gaf at zk3.dec.com (home)gaf at highway1.com 110 Spitbrook Rd. Mailstop: ZKO3-2/W17 Nashua, NH 03062-9987 (603)881-2970, DTN:381-2970 +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
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