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From: morgan@polya.Stanford.EDU (Robert L. Morgan)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Dynamic IP address assignment
Message-ID: <5198@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 21 Nov 88 03:32:38 GMT
References: <1378@aucs.UUCP>
Reply-To: morgan@polya.Stanford.EDU (Robert L. Morgan)
Organization: Stanford University
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wdw@aucs writes:

> Does anyone know of an RARP implementation that dynamically assigns IP
> addresses from a pool? Obviously this would be appropriate only for
> machines such as PC's in a public location where the current user may
> care less what his IP address is.

There's much gnashing of teeth about this issue going on at several
sites, including ours.  There are, as far as I know, no distributable
implementations yet.  There are a variety of problems that need to be
addressed with such a mechanism, including how the address is chosen,
when it is OK to reuse it, ARP caches in other hosts and gateways on
the LAN, robustness in the face of server crashes, etc.  Stay tuned.

 - RL "Bob" Morgan
   Networking Systems
   Stanford