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The Name of the Game: IP Addressing

August 23, 1999


Know the No-Shows
We recently published Sneak Previews of prerelease versions of Cisco Systems Network Registrar 3.0 ("Cisco Network Registrar: Controlling the Network Circus," www.networkcomputing.com/1012/1012sp1.html) and Process Software IP AddressWorks 1.0 ("IP AddressWorks: No Garden-Variety Tool," www.networkcomputing.com/1006/1006sp2.html), neither of which were available to test for this article. Here's what we found.

Cisco Systems Network Registrar 3.0
Cisco has dramatically improved Network Registrar since the last version we tested. The only oversight we found was in the GUI, which was still not quite up to the level of Nortel's NetID. Version 3.0 includes many new features that would have scored well in the features category, had Cisco participated. The bottom line: Cisco has a good product with a subpar GUI.

Process Software IP AddressWorks 1.0
Process Software has finally released its product, and is on the road to a newer version. Like Cisco's Network Registrar, it does not rely on a SQL store, but rather an LDAP server. IP AddressWorks does not use a Java applet to control its server--it uses a native Java program. IP AddressWorks' GUI is better than QIP's, but not by much.

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