[Info-vax] DHCP problems on OpenVMS 9.2 x86

[bill]

On 4/25/2023 8:09 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-04-25, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>> Den 2023-04-25 kl. 01:41, skrev fsword007 at gmail.com:
>>
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any solution for fixing DHCP client problems?
>>>
>>>    
>>
>> On VMS?
>> "Don't use it", is the easiest solution.
> 
> I would like to know what the obsession is with DHCP _client_ on a
> _server_ operating system. 

One reason is more administrative than technical.  It keeps all of an
organizations assigned addresses in one location.  I know I did it.

>                             About the only _possible_ use I can see
> for it is within a small home/office environment when VMS is being
> used as a workstation, not a server, and that's not exactly a place
> for VMS (Phillip not withstanding :-)).

Seems much less needed in the small home/office environment than in the
very large domain.

It's been more than ten years since I had a large network with VMS on
it but I seem to remember DHCP working fine with the VAX running VMS.
But then, I always ran Multinet and maybe that is the difference.

bill