"Craddock, Chris" wrote: ?snip>
> Most of my house guests bring their laptops (they're usually geeks too) > and they can choose between wired or wireless access. It would be a > royal PITA to have to add/remove their MAC addresses to the firewall > before they could get access. > ?snip> > > > CC It is possible (at leat with some DHCP servers) to do both. You can assign "permanent" addresses to some devices such as printers and servers, and let DHCP assign random addresses to the rest. This way you don't have to worry about dynamic DNS, the devices you want DNS names for don't change. For small networks it probably doesn't make much difference, but for larger ones it's nice to centralize the assignment of the "permanent" addresses so that if you need to make changes you don't have to go touch all of the devices. Of course if you have to install a new NIC the MAC address will change and you will have update the DHCP server to reflect that. Hopefully this is a rare event. -- Richard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
