Making it easier to configure your local workstations
With some server and
gateway products, you need to install special software
or make operating system customizations on each workstation.
Not with Nitix.
Nitix includes a built-in
DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server, which
assigns an IP address to each workstation on the local
network automatically. You never need to configure any
of the IP settings by hand on any workstation, and if
your network topology changes, Nitix can send the updates
out to workstations using DHCP.
Plus, the DHCP server
is self-configuring. Using advanced NetIntelligence
technology, the server automatically determines which
addresses on the local network are in use and which
ones are not, and Nitix will only give out not-in-use
addresses.
Because the DHCP server
is tightly integrated with NetIntelligence, it's easy
to migrate a network from static to dynamic IP addresses.
If you switch any workstation from manual to automatic
IP address configuration, Nitix will continue to assign
the station its old address. This eliminates the inconvenient
"address hopping" problems sometimes seen
with traditional DHCP servers.
How much effort does
it take to set all this up? Absolutely none.
Nitix configures the DHCP server to support all these
features as soon as you turn it on. In case you already
have a DHCP server on your local network, Nitix will
automatically disable its DHCP server and forward its
requests to that one instead.
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