My idea on DHCP was to keep the DHCP service running on the box I bring to the meetings. Then it will always be available to serve IP addresses when we make the LAN. I wasn't going to mention it until I have it configured but you brought it up. Now we could certainly use a secondary DHCP server in case my box doesn't get there or it gets flaky. Actually, different people could point to different servers and see what happens. Whether someone want's to explain the DHCP server configuration should depend on how much other stuff is happening that evening. There's also February and March and April...
I agree that DHCP is something we should cover at some point, as well as DNS and LDAP and Apache and SAMBA and NIS and SENDMAIL and ROUTING and FIREWALLS and MySQL and maybe JABBER and streaming servers and Video Conferencing (OK, I'm ambitious, sorry). But I think we might should take these one topic at a time. Personally, I'd like to sniff some packets in January. :) Oh, as far as DNS, personally I'd like to see us set up an interal root server as well as secondary's with a few zones. I know, I get carried away but the thing I like about this group is: They're not afraid of ANYTHING! Let's do it! OK, Ok, we can start with a caching server, but let's not stop there. DNS is one of the foundations of the internet. Let's learn it. And there's May, June and July too. We don't have to do EVERYTHING in January. :) Wayne Jeffrey Yep wrote: > Hi George, > > I understand that setting up zones etc. is more complicated and unnecessary > for home users, but I would assume some who are in the networking field > would like to know how to do so. But nevertheless, a demoonstration on > caching only (which I assume you're talking about squid) is also a good > demonstration and useful for dial-up users. So its a go ahead :-) > > Both you and Wayne can coordinate the DHCP presentation if you want or one > of you can take it up. I'll leave that decision to you both. > > Jeff > > >From: "George Tenney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:17:16 -0500 > > > >I could demo setting up DNS (caching only, actually setting up zones is > >much > >more complicated and more than most home users will ever need) and DHCP on > >a > >box for a small LAN. Let me know though before the meeting ;) > > > > George > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
