NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/comp/protocol/tcpip/5735

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From: [e-mail] ("Charles Ganzhorn")
Subject: Re: PCS WITH DUPLICATE TCP ADDRESSES
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Sender: ccg@tcdsp1 ("Charles Ganzhorn")
References: <1992Dec19.135454.548@fallst> <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 19:05:09 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Erick Engelke) writes:
|> > [e-mail] ("Charles Ganzhorn") writes:
|> >BOOTP is major bad idea.  You have to configure your routers to pass the
|> >silly stuff 'cuz you won't necessarily have a load host in all subnets.
|>
|> Yes, like that silly DNS idea where we had to add nameservers just
|> to support names.  Here we have to add one configuration parameter
|> to a router for each network.  What a large price to pay for
|> automatic configuration of all the machines on that subnet.
|>
|> >Also, if your BOOTP logs all requests, a station whose download doesn't
|> >get satisfied typically requests every five seconds and ends up filling
|> >up the logs on systems.
|>
|> So your error logs, if turned on, will show a broken system.  That is
|> a problem because it makes it so much harder to ignore a system
|> which is unable to boot up.
|>
|> Get with the program, and Merry Christmas.
|>
|> Erick
|>
|> --
|> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|> Erick Engelke                                 WATTCP Architect
|> [e-mail]     TCP/IP was easy but i still can't work VI

Oooooh, such biting sarcasm.

My point is that anyone can set up these systems which will bother
everyone else.  And in a large environment, that is a lot of systems.  I
don't control the desk top so I have to configure the network to avoid
people hurting each other.

Another poster pointed out that you can configure to pass ONLY BOOTP as
far as global IP goes but I still have the problem that I don't control
ANY systems in the network so when these clients are screaming for a
download, it is not in my power to re-configure the workstations who
excessively log the download attempts.

Its bad enough that I will bother the hosts in one subnet but now I will
bother hosts in other subnets.  Typically my customers get real
irritated when hosts from another part of the network bother them.

In any case, in a small environment or a totalitarian one, maybe BOOTP
works but in a large, open environment, it causes about as many problems
as it solves.

Charles.
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