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Re: DHCP Server and Novell

Lynn Grader <lgrader%davinci@davinci.com> Wed, 22 May 1996 20:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: DHCP Server and Novell
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>Michael J. Lewis wrote:
>> 
>> On this subject.  Are there any freeware DHCP Server that run on
>> Novell 3.12 or 4.XX?
>> 
>> Any disadvantages going this way?

> Novell has a DHCP server available within its NetWare/IP product.  The 
>server is effectively free since NetWare/IP is free to those running 
>NetWare 4.x.  The server is actually independent of NetWare/IP itself 
>and will run on Novell 3.x.  I'm not sure of the licensing ramifications 

>on a 3.x platform.		

I guess I'm prejudiced since I do tech support for ON Technology, so I'll 
keep it brief and try not to sound like a salesperson:

Novell told us that NetWare/IP runs only on 4.x servers. Also, we were 
told that Novell allows for only 1 subnet range and supports only FTP and 
NetWare IP stacks.

Lynn

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