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Re: How many folks are actually using dynamic IP address assignment?

Mark Sirota <msirota@isc.upenn.edu> Mon, 07 October 1996 17:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: How many folks are actually using dynamic IP address assignment?
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Mark Boolootian wrote: 
> I'm curious as to how many sites out there are actually assigning IP
> addresses dynamically.  From some of the comments I've seen on the ISC
> DHCP server mailing list, it sounds as if many sites are avoiding
> dynamic assignment, and opting for nailed up addresses handed out via
> DHCP.

Here at Penn, we are using the ISC DHCP Server to hand out dynamic
addresses for all of Resnet, plus several computer labs such as those
in libraries where students can come in and plug in their laptop.  We
have a pool of more than 8,000 addresses in 19 networks served by a
central DHCP server.

We do not use DHCP or BOOTP at all for static addresses.

The lack of DNS integration is not yet a problem for us, as the
hostname does not need to be pretty for (most of) these users.  
-- 
Mark Sirota, Network Systems Engineer
University of Pennsylvania, Information Systems and Computing
msirota@isc.upenn.edu, 215/573-7214

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