Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 00:52:33 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Static v. bootp assignment? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960116005145.814C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Think this one got eaten in the questions outage a couple of days ago. Hello all! We've been debating here as to how we want to do IP addressing in the future. Right now, we have two student dorms online, with the rest coming online in fall. That will total out to be ~2000 or so people (+/- 1000 :) ). Right now we just staticly address each person an IP address when we install the software on the system. However, the rest of the University is on bootp right now which seems to be working ok. What I'd like to know is the pros-and-cons between the various ip assignment systems. I don't want to know which one is _better_ or any other possible points of contention. We need to know who is online and how to reach them. This way if we discover that someone is abusing the network we can get a hold of them. Please take this and similar security measures into account. We have a FreeBSD box available for whatever, if you want to know. These are the things I see so far (+ = good, - = bad): Static IP + Instantly on-line [this is important since we currently install the network software off the net, that might change] + Always works, even if server goes down - They can change their IP address easily ``static'' bootp (we get enet addr, we add to bootptab): + Track by enet address, which our hubs also run by (we can query the hubs as to who is connected to what port) + They change enet address, they don't work - Server goes down, everyone else can't connect ``dynamic'' bootp (they plug in, they get an address): + Instantly on-line - They change enet address, they still work (some network cards let you change the ethernet address) I'm asking since I'm not so familiar with bootp or bootpd under FreeBSD. Anything you can provide would be greatly appreciated! Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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