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From: buckaroo@medisg.Stanford.EDU (Matthew N. Petach)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: Re: IP Number management
Message-ID: <1991May23.170536.13657@medisg.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 23 May 91 17:05:36 GMT
References: <1991May21.203820.11396@ariel.unm.edu> <1991May22.130444.1410@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <1991May22.171817.21820@ariel.unm.edu>
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In article <1991May22.171817.21820@ariel.unm.edu> pkrause@triton.unm.edu (Paul Krause CIRT) writes:
>In article <1991May22.130444.1410@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> paw@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Pat Wilson) writes:
>>It's never occurred to me to assign IP numbers to _people_ rather
>>than machines - what are your reasons for doing things this way?
>>How does a hard drive getting trashed affect the IP number, anyway?
>>-- 
>>Pat Wilson
>>Systems Manager, Project NORTHSTAR
>>paw@northstar.dartmouth.edu
>
>When people change offices they usually take their equipment with them.  I find
>that a name is often very usefull in finding a particular machine.  Hard drives
>get invloved when John Doe accidently erases his and asks Jane Doe if he can
>copy the files from hers.  Now they both have the same number.  However, Jane
>doesn't use hers much so they never happen to conflict.  Jane gets a job in
>another department of the university where they buy her a new pc and she gets
>another IP number.  Harry is hired to replace Jane, he likes his pc so now
>we get a call from John that he is having conflict problems. 
>
>Paul


Wouldn't it seem more reasonable to use BootP to obtain IP addresses?
That way all numbers are allocated dynamically, and there is no
problem with potential conflicts (unless someone manages to copy the
PROM from one interface to another, so the hardware addresses are the
same).

Matt Petach
Information Systems Group,
Stanford University Medical School

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