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Foil 28 Unix / PC Integration (2)

From Introduction to Network Management Lectures at Xi'an Jaotong University -- Sept 1998. by Roman Markowski
1 Namespace communication: Unix uses DNS, WindowNT uses WINS. To have both operating systems on your network, you need to get the namespaces communicating
2 Namespace protocols (DHCP, WINS)
  • DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (RFC 1993, 1541) published in 1989 (IETF)
    • it is meant to replace BOOTP (Bootstrap Protocol)
    • supports all extensions of BOOTP
    • both protocols provide a mechanism to configure a workstation's network parameters (such as IP address, mask, gateway) and download other data to the workstation.
    • IP address can be assigned : manually, automatically, dynamically
    • supports IP2 with longer naming scheme
    • one DHCP server and many clients; if there is one server for many subnets, routers have to forward DHCP packets
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