On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 11:45 AM Chris Albertson
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 1) DHCP can in fact be "static".   What you do is configure your DHCP
> server to always assign the same IP to each physical device and/or make the
> lease time really, really long.      DHCP adds zero overhead once the IP
> address and other info is set.

What's the point?  If you are going to statically assign a DHCP
address, why not go all the way and make it a static address on the
machine?  The machine still has to re-negotiate eventually when the
lease expires if you use DHCP.  That is not zero overhead.

>
> 2) Ipfilters should not be used on a real-time machine.   It you want a
> firewall because your local network is routed to the Internet you should
> place the firewall in the router, not on each computer.ters

Agreed.

Mark


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