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From: "Thumper!" <thumper@vfr.interceptor.com>
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Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 14:01:10 -0700
Organization: Interceptor Systems
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Justin "Rhys Thuryn" McNutt wrote:
> TCP/IP (particularly in Linux) isn't very difficult to configure at all,
> and I found it a hell of a lot easier to deal with than Microsft
> Networking (we set up a 3-node LAN at home). I realize that in reality
> the second part is mostly opinion, but TCP/IP network software only asks
> for three things: your IP, your netmask, and your gateway. MS
> Networking (for example) requires lots of setup through their stupid GUI
> that just confuses the hell out of [me].
In a small situation, yes. but scale it up to a company with 35 -250 people
where there are laptops being dropped in and out and computers being added all
the time. Then it becomes a far bigger pain in the butt. DHCP makes the
client end simple, they just have to click on one choice (to use DHCP). Also,
clustering people into user domains where just one login sets their access on
multiple servers (file,printer,disk,etc) again saves hassle (by the way, most
people still use TCP/IP as the transport protocol)
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