Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 16:03:32 GMT From: hal@snitt.com (Hal Snyder) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is Token Ring supported? Message-ID: <31a48995.64509645@vogon.trans.sni-usa.com> In-Reply-To: <199605230132.VAA10851@shell.monmouth.com> References: <199605230132.VAA10851@shell.monmouth.com>
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> > JM> We need to set up a DHCP server at work - but it needs to support > > JM> token ring. > > JM> If FreeBSD doesn't support TR, I guess we'll be forced to use BSDi or > > JM> even NT. This is not strictly on topic - at least until FreeBSD supports TR - but the subject of NT doing DHCP is a red flag here... At SNITT, where we run a mix of FreeBSD, SVR4, and NT, we tried twice to use the DHCP services that come with NT Server 3.51 and gave up in disgust, both times going back to statically assigned IP addresses. Reasons were: 1) NT services get royally confused when servers have more than one LAN interface (not just DHCP, but WINS and browser too); 2) the DHCP admin app is very good at losing its tables or getting them into an unusable state, and without being able to save/edit config in a text file, that means entering the entire damn setup over and over; 3) DHCP clients cannot be told which suffixes to append to unqualified host names, so there is still a part of system setup that has to be done locally at each client; 4) total lack of any sane, useful diagnostic tools. -- Hal Snyder 847-698-0300 x 523 (voice) 847-698-3212 (fax) Siemens Nixdorf Transportation Technologies http://www.snitt.com 6400 Shafer Ct, Suite 200, Rosemont, IL 60018
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