Spider

Spider is a

• ATX Mid Tower
• Tyan S1692D - Intel 440LX Chipset (www.tyan.com)
• 2 x Pentium II - 266Mhz CPU and Fan
• 128 Meg (1x128 Meg DIMM 10ns SPD, with 3 free DIMM)
• Fujitsu 1.44 Floppy Disk Drive
• Quantum Atlas III - 9.1 Gig UltraWide 7200 RPM SCSI Hard Disk (unterminated!)
• Buslogic 958 - UltraWide SCSI Controller PCI
• Trident 9680 - 1 Meg PCI Video

DNS, DHCP, Wins server

The latest beta versions of the DHCP daemon have built-in support for doing dynamic updates of DNS when leases are handed out. This makes it feasible to put these vital network serveices on a real O/S.

In the dhcpd.conf, set the following options:

xxxxx 8;

The netbios dd server is the Datagram Distribution server. basically, an NBDD server distributes netbios packets to other nodes that it connects to. The theory being that the NBDD server might be in contact with more machines then the nodes that it services. In any regard, it doesn't hurt anything to have this.

The node type is as follows.

type 1

is a B-node that uses broadcasts only

type 2

is a P-node that uses WINS only.

type 4

is an M-node that can use both WINS and broadcasts, but use broadcasts first.

type 8

is an H-node, they are the best choice I feel. They are much like M-nodes, but they query WINS first, then broadcast. This way you still have the greatest chance at getting resolution while still keeping broadcast traffic to an absolute minimum.