"The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." - James Baldwin
Dynamic Host Control Protocol, or DHCP, is what most Internet users' computers get their IP addresses from. In my house, the DHCP server runs on my Windows Server 2003, which I am preparing to upgrade to a Pentium 4 workstation so I can do some video editing.
This poses a problem: the only other DHCP server options I have are (1) on my NAT device (some people call these home routers) and (2) on my Linux box. Since I need to create reservations for my wireless clients, I must use the Linux box since the NAT doesn't have this capability. This is where it gets ugly, but not that ugly.
DHCP was easy enough to install, and it's looking to be a cinch to get started and configure. It's just not quite as simple as it is with Windows Server. All I need is in the Linux MAN pages, available on the system or more easily readable at die.net.
This is the last thing I have to do before I can take the Windows Server offline. Wish me luck.
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