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             NEW  RARP   SERVER   AVAILABLE
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	Turbosoft Pty Ltd today announces the release of new server
software for the Internet standard RARP protocol, to allow Internet
hosts to find their protocol address at boot time from a network
server.

	As well as the standard RARP functionality, with explicit
mappings between IP numbers and hardware addresses hard-coded into the
RARP table, RARPSERVER from Turbosoft allows a range of IP numbers to
be allocated dynamically on a first-come-first-served basis. This
provides extremely simple management of IP numbers in large sites, as
only the end numbers in the range need be specified. The RARPSERVER
will track the allocation of each number and poll each machine
periodically to determine when the IP number is no longer required,
when it will be returned to the pool and made available for allocation
to another client.

	This new mode is invaluable in sites where IP numbers are
running out, and only a small sub-set of machines are using TCP/IP at
any one time.  For instance, in a university environment or corporate
classroom where different groups of machines are used at different
times during the day, only enough IP addresses need be reserved for
the maximum number that will be used concurrently.

	Network management of IP numbers is made extremely easy, as
new hosts can be added to the network and old ones removed without the
RARPSERVER's tables needing to be touched in any way.

	Re-numbering networks becomes a snap - only the central
RARPSERVER need be reconfigured, and each RARP client is automatically
reconfigured when it next boots, without the administrator having to
find, coordinate and configure the several hundred or thousand small
machines such as PCs that may be connected throughout the network.

	Any site with large numbers of PCs will benefit from using the
RARPSERVER to centralise management of their IP address space.

	RARPSERVER software runs on a standard MSDOS PC, and is quite
capable of managing a large network on a floppy-disk-only 512K AT -
you probably have one gathering dust as a doorstop. Up to 12,000 IP
numbers can be managed on a standard 640K PC. Ethernet and Token Ring
architectures are supported using any card with a Packet Driver
interface (supplied).  Also supplied are Dan Lanciani's ODIPKT shim
and Joe Doupnik's DIS_PKT shim for interfacing to cards with ODI or
NDIS drivers.

	Fully-featured demonstration versions are available through
UUENCODEd Email, unfortunately not for anonymous FTP. Just send your
requests and queries to:	info@abccomp.oz.au.
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