Re: Sorry, but Peter's right - you Just Don't Get It.

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12/11/02 10:04:07 PM

Re: Sorry, but Peter's right - you Just Don't Get It.

Oh, *that* must be why all the other consultants are toting around laptops with thirty-eight network cards in them -- one for each LAN they ever attach to! No, hold on, wait a minute... Hey, guess what -- they *don't*!

I would not do what is being suggested here, and I doubt that any of the consultants you see wandering around do it. Any client with enough infrastructure to need a consultant will have a DHCP server that sets all that stuff up on the fly. It's the very same principle as dialing up to the Internet over the phone lines. You tell the network "I'm here" and it gives you an IP address, a network to live on, and a gateway to the rest of the world.

I was at IBM - people had several machines, laptops, labs, etc. Issues like this never arose as people went from room to room to experimental setup to lab to conference etc. It is so easy to configure a DHCP server that any network with more than say 8 nodes should use it. If you ever had a real need to reconfigure your personal network settings from the ground up, then that is the responsibility of the client in any case.

-drl

Post #68,292

12/11/02 10:50:28 PM

I know of several companies

one with over 750 staff and 1k computers have static addressing. It depends on how you want to configure a net. If each port is labelled with an ip address and mask the task is fairly simple. DHCP has its uses in dialup and net on demand but static tables also work quite well. From a secure standpoint I would hesitate to see conslutants dragginf their own boxen in and leaving with the contents daily. Make me nervous that would.
thanx,
bill

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How do I set up multiple LAN connection in Windows 2000 Pro? - (CRConrad) - (40) - Dec. 9, 2002, 08:26:14 AM EST

Slow down, cowboy. - (pwhysall) - (13) - Dec. 9, 2002, 09:04:43 AM EST

What's not to understand??? - (CRConrad) - (12) - Dec. 9, 2002, 09:57:07 AM EST

Re: What's not to understand??? - (pwhysall) - (11) - Dec. 9, 2002, 10:08:34 AM EST

ifconfig eth0:1 - (boxley) - (4) - Dec. 9, 2002, 10:18:10 AM EST

Bad Idea on Windows 2000 -NT - (pwhysall) - (3) - Dec. 9, 2002, 10:20:41 AM EST

why is binding 2 addresses on one nic bad in 2k? - (boxley) - (2) - Dec. 9, 2002, 11:19:06 AM EST

Thanks - saved me an explanation - (pwhysall) - Dec. 9, 2002, 11:20:28 AM EST

Not bad at all - very useful - (deSitter) - Dec. 9, 2002, 11:55:09 AM EST

Ah, great - will try that. Thanks!! -NT - (CRConrad) - Dec. 9, 2002, 10:41:27 AM EST

Re: What's not to understand??? - (deSitter) - (3) - Dec. 9, 2002, 12:02:23 PM EST

Re: What's not to understand??? - (pwhysall) - (2) - Dec. 9, 2002, 03:23:00 PM EST

Re: What's not to understand??? - (deSitter) - (1) - Dec. 9, 2002, 03:34:41 PM EST

You're doing it again! - (pwhysall) - Dec. 9, 2002, 04:12:47 PM EST

Ahhh, that'd be the best way. Winders Hates "fuzzy" stuff... - (folkert) - Dec. 9, 2002, 12:53:37 PM EST

Re: How do I set up multiple LAN connection in Windows 2000 - (deSitter) - (18) - Dec. 9, 2002, 10:02:28 AM EST

Read the question. - (pwhysall) - Dec. 9, 2002, 10:10:05 AM EST

Thing is, I DON'T want to use the secondary NIC... - (CRConrad) - (16) - Dec. 9, 2002, 10:15:05 AM EST

Thoughts on That - (deSitter) - (15) - Dec. 9, 2002, 11:51:47 AM EST

Reading between the lines - (jbrabeck) - (6) - Dec. 9, 2002, 02:12:21 PM EST

Re: Reading between the lines - (deSitter) - (4) - Dec. 9, 2002, 03:08:35 PM EST

Oh hush. - (pwhysall) - (3) - Dec. 9, 2002, 03:18:31 PM EST

Aha! - (folkert) - (2) - Dec. 9, 2002, 03:54:55 PM EST

You rang? - (static) - (1) - Dec. 10, 2002, 01:57:01 AM EST

Yeah... - (folkert) - Dec. 10, 2002, 09:12:45 AM EST

Yup, that's it exactly. (Wasn't that *obvious* to everyone?) -NT - (CRConrad) - Dec. 11, 2002, 05:10:08 PM EST

Windows does not particularly like - (folkert) - (3) - Dec. 9, 2002, 02:31:53 PM EST

Correct - (deSitter) - (2) - Dec. 9, 2002, 03:10:55 PM EST

Might be interested to know... (new thread) - (folkert) - Dec. 9, 2002, 06:41:37 PM EST

Unfortunately... - (CRConrad) - Dec. 11, 2002, 05:08:29 PM EST

Sorry, but Peter's right - you Just Don't Get It. - (CRConrad) - (3) - Dec. 11, 2002, 05:32:21 PM EST

I think... therefore I might just understand... - (folkert) - Dec. 11, 2002, 07:38:09 PM EST

Re: Sorry, but Peter's right - you Just Don't Get It. - (deSitter) - (1) - Dec. 11, 2002, 10:04:07 PM EST

I know of several companies - (boxley) - Dec. 11, 2002, 10:50:28 PM EST

Windows won't - (scoenye) - (6) - Dec. 12, 2002, 02:32:25 PM EST

Ackshully - (pwhysall) - (5) - Dec. 12, 2002, 09:44:40 PM EST

Fucking Whoopee - (deSitter) - (4) - Dec. 12, 2002, 10:13:30 PM EST

No you can't. - (pwhysall) - (3) - Dec. 12, 2002, 11:38:28 PM EST

Re: No you can't. - (deSitter) - (2) - Dec. 12, 2002, 11:48:17 PM EST

As usual... - (pwhysall) - (1) - Dec. 13, 2002, 12:03:00 AM EST

Re: As usual... - (deSitter) - Dec. 13, 2002, 11:17:43 AM EST

Microphone check, microphone check. Can I get a check-up from the neck up?
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