Ken Moffat wrote:
What I do not understand is the *concept* of switching between static and dhcp as a regular thing to do. My experience is that ALL modern broadband connection devices seem to offer dhcp, so what is the benefit of a static connection (apart, perhaps, from a few seconds when booting : in my case, waiting for the BIOS to initialise the machine is the slowest part of booting, but some speed freaks apparently prefer systemd [ /me spits. :-) ]
If you want to ssh into a system, it is useful for that system to have a static IP address. All my systems use static addresses for that reason except when I am testing dhcpcd or dhclient or something like network manager.
In addition, I just don't like the extra overhead of that daemon running. If I were in a commercial setting, my approach would be different though.
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