Re: enhanced DHCP development meeting

[PAUL SCHNEIDENBACH]

Hi,

I am very interested in this meeting but will be at ResNet 98 at Emory
University until July 1 where I assume I will be able to check out a few
different enhanced DHCP systems.  ResNet is a conference on how colleges
implement ethernet networks for resident halls.  Any possible way you
could wait one week? 

On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, John Schafer wrote:

> At the June 2nd MJTS meeting there was a discussion of development work at
> several schools on an enhanced DHCP system.
> 
> A meeting is planned on Tuesday, June 30th, 10am, to discuss DHCP
> development projects that we are working on and how they may be applicable
> to the MJTS group.
> 
> If you would like to attend this meeting please reply to me by this Wed.
> evening. Thursday we will schedule a location.
> 
>  -- John
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> Background Information
> ----------------------
> DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is standard protocol for
> assigning information (IP address, network mask, default router, name
> server, time server, etc.) to clients (Windows, Macintosh, Unix, etc.) from
> centrally managed DHCP servers. This improves network administration and
> helps avoid problems such as duplicate IP address assignment. In a basic
> DHCP system the server is loaded with Ethernet hardware addresses to
> identify each client. When a client starts up the server assigns IP address
> information based on the Ethernet hardware address.
> 
> The enhancements being written by several schools (MSU, UM, others?) include:
> 	Authentication (identify user before assigning address to client)
> 	Automatic registration (collect Ethernet hardware address at
> 	 authentication)
> 	Network security (restrict network access using switch VLANs)
> 	Java based administration tool (cross platform)
> 
> Some of the additional capabilities discussed on June 2nd were:
> 	Radius for distributed authentication
> 	Subnet policies to authorize based on group membership
> 	Modular design to enable use of different off-the-shelf DHCP servers
> 	Reliability through DHCP-Failover
> 	Roaming with dynamic-DNS
> 
> 
> 
> 

Paul

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