The Last Word

In this chapter, I've looked at a two networking systems and techniques. DHCP combines with DNS to provide an automatic and self-managing way to provide IP services to your network. NAP is a great way to assess the integrity and quality of remote client machines before they have a chance to potentially infect your network with malicious software.

In the next chapter, I discuss how to scale your network services using software to provide load balancing and fault tolerance.

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