Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 08:38:06 +0200
From: Francis Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| => it works but I can't qualify the situation of a large part of
| a protocol is only a burden for current uses as OK.
No question but that DHCP is a fairly heavy protocol - but that's at
the server end, and only needed if you actually want to use managed
address assignment. If you do want that on your net, then all of
that baggage is required.
>From the client point of view, using DHCP to get DNS server info, or
anything else like that is pretty lightweight, the rest of the protocol
can largely be ignored. Even doing the client side of DHCP for address
assignment isn't all that burdensome.
So, it seems to me that there isn't much of an issue here really.
Note: I still don't believe that anyone should be required to use
DHCP (with or without the address assignment part) if they don't
want to - but on a net where the administrators want that level of
control, nodes should do the right thing and co-operate.
kre
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