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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (21027)	9/24/1998 12:28:00 AM
From: Justin Banks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Dan - why can't Microsoft compete in the conventional sense, on the quality and price of its products? Because the quality sucks and the price is too high? Seriously. I don't know how many of you have noticed (or care), but I've recently changed jobs. I'm working for a startup now, and we've got an NT box that's running as a DHCP server (curse the IS folks that went with NT, with all the SGI and Sun boxes we've got around). I need to have the DHCP server recognize the MAC address of all hosts with a known static IP address, and return the static address for those hosts, so that DHCP broadcast queries by said hosts don't confuse them. The NT guys told me that the only way to do this is by typing those hosts into the GUI. I'm talking over a thousand machines here. What a waste of time and manpower. What a stupid configuration for an OS that's supposed to be 'enterprise-ready'. Of course, I'd be overjoyed to find that I was wrong, if someone here can point me at a way to do this programatically ... And yes, I still work for SGI, but on a part time basis now. -justinb