On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:13:16 -0500
Harry Putnam <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
> But the addressing for the local machines is static (always the
> same). At least that is my aim.
>
> On my two osol machines I have been faking it by setting the lan
> router to serve specific dhcp addresses to specific MAC address on the
> local machines, thru its dhcp service. So (in effect) I have a static
> number I know will be the address for each of the two machines.
>
> That seemed like kind of a confusing way to arrive at static IP
> numbers so I decided to change over to real static addressing.
[...]
I think you are confusing the style of mapping of addresses between
layer 2 and layer 3 and how you distribute those mappings.
Distributing static mappings via sneaker net is no more static then
distributing static mappings via DHCP. The tradeoff is that sneaker
net is easier to do in small networks but doesn't scale.
mph
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