What administration tools administer DHCP configurations?
• Quadritek’s QIP network administration product includes an interface to Competitive Automation’s JOIN DHCP server and IBM’s DHCP server and their own server. • How do I make a client give up its lease? This is a general question, but the answer is of necessity specific to the client-implementation. Naturally, one way to avoid the problem is to keep leases short enough that you are not obliged to do this. • One method mentioned is to temporarily change the clock on the client. • For a Win95 client, the winipcfg.exe program can do it. • What are the Gotcha’s specific to various implementations? In many cases, new releases have solved the problems that have been identified with various DHCP implementations. • An extra server feature is required to handle the allocation of addresses on the secondary IP addresses associated with a router port. You may find out after the fact that you have such secondary addresses • There have been servers that are inflexible as to the list of configuratio
• Quadritek’s QIP network administration product includes an interface to Competitive Automation’s JOIN DHCP server and IBM’s DHCP server and their own server. • How do I make a client give up its lease? This is a general question, but the answer is of necessity specific to the client-implementation. Naturally, one way to avoid the problem is to keep leases short enough that you are not obliged to do this. • One method mentioned is to temporarily change the clock on the client. • For a Win95 client, the winipcfg.exe program can do it. • What are the Gotcha’s specific to various implementations? In many cases, new releases have solved the problems that have been identified with various DHCP implementations. • An extra server feature is required to handle the allocation of addresses on the secondary IP addresses associated with a router port. You may find out after the fact that you have such secondary addresses • There have been servers that are inflexible as to the list of configuratio
