Re: dhclient & switching networks
Nate Duehr wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
>
>>Oooh.. You would have to point that out. Somewhere about 3 months after
>>I got _this_ laptop, it occurred to me that I was really supposed to
>>report
>>the MAC to the network centre, so that they could do that. Of course, I
>>never got around to it. Now, I know they'll appreciate knowing about the
>>unofficial DHCP server, but they'll still slap my wrists for not telling
>>them about the new MAC address :-(
>>
> If they were worth the money you're probably paying them (sounds like a
> large organization with salaries somewhere near the median, but who
> knows?), they should have already seen you on the network and talked to
> you already.
Well, they're guvermint, but they're far-from-the-center-of-things
guvermint, so they don't have the big salaries. But they're administering
a network of a thousand-odd machines, with regular visits from people from
'away'. My laptop doesn't log onto the Windows domain, so they don't
terribly care. But once a month when it loses the old lease (or everyday,
recently because of this problem) I have to fight with it to get a new
lease from the right subnet, and if I actually got around to sending them
the MAC address it would always end up on the same IP.
> And of course, that leads to a bigger picture discussion of one of the
> major problems with business and IT -- their managers would have no idea
> if they're not technical themselves what the techies are/are-not doing
> -- so it's a never-ending cycle... networks half-baked... never done
> right...
There's a whole lot of that going on :-)
--
derek
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