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In article <327ADA92.5C4B@fastlane.net>, dcollins@fastlane.net says...
> INC. LIMNO-TECH wrote:
> > 
> > Is there a DHCP server for NOvell 4.1? (free would be nice) I am
> > looking to give our windows machines long term leases for IP numbers, so I
> > don't have to reconfigure the IP numbers when we move computers around.
> 
> Take a look at http://support.novell.com/
> 
> Search on DHCP.  That should point to the latest one.
> 
> Myself, am running it on a 4.10 server. It works fine for us.
> However, I don't remember the filename.  The above site, should point to
> the latest...  good luck.

I've been using it for a while, and it is not without its warts.  One of 
them interacts with Windows95 in strange and wonderful ways.

Let's imagine for a moment that you have a local net that uses IP as well 
as a dial up PPP connection to the Internet on your Windows 95 PC.  For 
one reason or another, you need a specific address on your Windows 95 PC.  
So you assign it a static address and all is good.  Until...

You get your local IP address from the Novell DHCP server.  Then you dial 
up your Internet Service Provider, and nothing happens.  A bit of 
checking reveals that everything is going to the local net.

You look around and discover the WINIPCFG.EXE program that was bundled 
with Windows 95 and see that it will let you release your IP 
configuration.  You do so, then load the dialup PPP package, and VIOLA! - 
you're on the Internet.  Sure, you lost the local IP connection, but 
that's OK for now, you can get it back when you restore the IP 
connection.

So, you disconnect from the dialup network, click on "renew" and.... get 
the wrong IP address.  Somehow the WINIPCFG "release" command causes the 
Novell DHCP to discard the static address and then assign a new one when 
you use the "renew" command.

In contrast, OnTechnologies DHCP server remembers who is supposed to have 
which static addresses, and reassigns the same addresses again and again.

This may be a bit far fetched for some, but it has happened to me... 
caveat emptor.

Mike