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[Veritas-bu] Can Netbackup work on a DHCP network

2006-06-13 04:30:15
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Can Netbackup work on a DHCP network
From: Richard.Hall at ingenta.com (Richard.Hall)
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:30:15 +0100 (BST)
Carl,

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Wilkinson, Tim wrote:

> It's perfectly fine to use DHCP for Windows servers as long as you use
> reservations. The good thing about using DHCP for reserved IPs is if the
> network configuration changes, you don't have to manually update the
> values on every box as it can be done through DHCP.
[...]

And the bad thing is that, if your DHCP server happens to be dead when one
of its clients tries to renew its lease, ...

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Richard