[Infrastructures] DHCP for servers

[Rainer.Heilke@atcoitek.com]

The people I know using DHCP with reservations don't tend to use it to
manage anything beyond IP information. I can well imagine that as you
expand focus, it becomes increasingly difficult, as you say. There's too
many variables involved for me to be interested in DHCP beyond handing
out an IP address/netmask/default router when I bring my laptop home
from work. Maybe I'm just old school. :-)

Rainer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: infrastructures-admin@TerraLuna.Org 
> [mailto:infrastructures-admin@TerraLuna.Org] On Behalf Of Pete Ehlke
> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 8:24 PM
> To: infrastructures@terraluna.org
> Subject: Re: [Infrastructures] DHCP for servers
> 
> 
> On Mon Jun 27, 2005 at 16:32:36 -0600, 
> Rainer.Heilke@atcoitek.com wrote:
> >In Active Directory, you can use DHCP, and have reservations for
> >servers. I'm assuming ISC and others have this as well. I 
> know of some
> >that work this way. While this eases some problems, the down side is
> >that this wouldn't prevent the problems you mention. Of course, these
> >problems aren't limited to DHCP (like when some whiz fires 
> up Samba, and
> >stomps on your Windows domain).
> >
> Dealing with DHCP server failover scenarios and the like 
> isn't the hard part
> of this.
> 
> The hard part comes when you want to use DHCP to configure 
> your servers,
> but there are also other things- VCS, Sun Cluster, and the like- that
> think *they* should be in control of the same sort of thing that DHCP
> typically controls...
> 
> -Pete
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