Mac's and DHCP
05 April 2005, 08:53 AM
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Mac's and DHCP
I'm getting fed some 2nd hand information from a site.
Got a user claiming they are having issues getting DHCP leases from a SonicWall. They reckon they've read on a Mac forum somewhere that if you have more than three Mac's on a LAN, then others are unable to get a DHCP lease.
I know some of the Mac's are running Panther / Tiger but I suspect some are running older versions. There's also a couple of PCs running XP.
Any truth in this?
TIA,
Chris.
Got a user claiming they are having issues getting DHCP leases from a SonicWall. They reckon they've read on a Mac forum somewhere that if you have more than three Mac's on a LAN, then others are unable to get a DHCP lease.
I know some of the Mac's are running Panther / Tiger but I suspect some are running older versions. There's also a couple of PCs running XP.
Any truth in this?
TIA,
Chris.
05 April 2005, 09:09 AM
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Talking rubbish mate!
Got 35 macs on the network all running Panther and a couple OS 9 machines and there running DHCP no problems.
As long as there are enough leases to be given out then there shouldn't be a problem.
Hope that helps a bit.
Rich
Got 35 macs on the network all running Panther and a couple OS 9 machines and there running DHCP no problems.
As long as there are enough leases to be given out then there shouldn't be a problem.
Hope that helps a bit.
Rich
05 April 2005, 02:24 PM
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I've got clients running anywhere between 10 and 2000 macs using DHCP. Now, I can't say they are using SonicWall devices, but I would have thought so.
If it was a major issue then I'd have heard about it by now, as our flagship product is enterprise level network administration and control for Macs, and it kinda needs the network to be working order
As for them saying they are using Panther / Tiger. Panther, fair enough, they would be running that, or possibly Jaguar (10.2) and maybe even some Pre Mac OS X clients. As for Tiger. hmm, well, seeing as it's not officially released yet, they should not even be commenting that they have it, let alone using it in a production environment.
If it was a major issue then I'd have heard about it by now, as our flagship product is enterprise level network administration and control for Macs, and it kinda needs the network to be working order
As for them saying they are using Panther / Tiger. Panther, fair enough, they would be running that, or possibly Jaguar (10.2) and maybe even some Pre Mac OS X clients. As for Tiger. hmm, well, seeing as it's not officially released yet, they should not even be commenting that they have it, let alone using it in a production environment.
05 April 2005, 10:55 PM
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Thanks all.
Off on-site tomorrow for a look rather than playing chinese-whispers.
Sorry about the Tiger reference, too many cat names gets me confused
Off on-site tomorrow for a look rather than playing chinese-whispers.
Sorry about the Tiger reference, too many cat names gets me confused
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