On 2 November 2014 03:18, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
We find it generally useful on a LAN to know which machine is on which address, so we see static addresses as almost essential. For us, this also extends to remote systems we need to ssh into. As such, we always select an ISP that offers public static addresses. As we are slowly moving systems to ipv6 the scarcity of public ipv4 addresses becomes a non-issue, however, we are lucky here in the UK to have found a good ISP that is ipv6 aware. As a point of interest, we did lose an ipv4 address on one machine during a transition phase leaving just ipv6; the web suddenly became a very lonely place with, in the main, just Google sites available. It shows how little take-up the has been, to date, of ipv6. I think the only time we need dhcpd on our *LFS systems is when tethering an Android phone. Richard > > 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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