Kind of.
Those were different times. At least us we were not so preoccupied by
tracking users, accounting, etc. So a central point to record IP address
was not as important as a central port to give IP address. So both
solutions would seem useful to me at that time (as I said I was young
and naive).
Now, it is different. DHCP it is better solution to our current needs.
Regards
as
On 6/1/13 11:25 AM, Masataka Ohta wrote:
But any how, I agree with Brian that it was a good idea at that time.
Not at all.
It was merely that those who had little operational insight had
thought so.
Rest of the people developed DHCP and, now, you can see which is
better.