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DHCP Management Across a Diversified Network?
ET Admin writes "I work for a small Wireless ISP, where we are deploying new network hardware to allow for growth and contain broadcast traffic. All routing/switching equipment is Cisco. We use Linux stand-alone boxes and VMs (running on Win 2003 boxes). We have decided on a hybrid VLAN layout where we have certain VLANs limited by location, and other VLANs that are global across the network. And I want DHCP served across it all. Does anyone have experience with IPAM software that handles multiple DHCP servers? Our network is small so spending a couple grand is overkill at this point. Any recomendations to help me decide between serving DHCP from the Nix boxes, or from the Cisco gear? Knowing that a single DHCP server will handle from 100-500 hosts."
ahhhh go fuck yourself. if you fucking microsoft shills knew anything about the industry it would amaze me. you get your fucking mcse and get a job but don't have the skills. i fucking hate you idiots.
I'm sorry but some people are idiots and they shouldn't be working the job they have. If you can't find someone to hire who knows how to setup DHCP you are a cheap bastard. Hire a competent person and stop asking other people to tell you how to do your own job. I see a lot of this in the US right now and I'm non too happy to have to do other peoples jobs for them when I'm getting paid for it let alone when I'm not.
Shut the fuck up. The question was answered. That's all that's important. Fucking bitch.
" I'm an electrical engineer specializing in circuit design. Sure, my company might be cheap for not providing IT services for my lab, but they're on a budget and extra employees are expensive. Only when the expense of having me configure my own DHCP services exceeds the expense of hiring someone to do it for me will they consider hiring someone external."
So, how is it that having an electrical engineer working out his core competencies that most probably are central to his bussiness area cheaper than hiring somebody that will do it faster and better or, at least, won't be but a lower grade?
"Surely my company might be cheap" you say... I say "surely, your company seems to be seriously mismanaged".
It still is getting quite tiring to see /. questions mistaking this for a general helpdesk. It's not newsworthy. It's not pushing any limits. All the information is freely available. There's newsgroups and discussion groups all over about this. Spend a day or two reading those archives and you have a wide range of views including at least a few opinions from dyed in the wool real experts with decades of experience.
AIUI, /. is about new stuff. Not about the boring old stuff you can find very well elsewhere, TYVM. Increasingly it's being abused as a substitute for RingTFM. That is bad.
How would you react if you saw the Nth question about basic circuit design, like, oh, ``what's the best way to start using gate logic?'' -- Many readers may be not primarily IT people but that still doesn't mean we have to dull the cutting news edge here.