[slim] Torwards a less Horrific setup experience

2008-06-30 Thread Pat Farrell
Phil Leigh wrote: Other than that it's the default setting on most network devices, is there any good reason to use DHCP for static network devices whose IP address should never change? Bill - Not in my book! - I never use DHCP... (but some people seem to like it) I run DHCP on

Re: [slim] Torwards a less Horrific setup experience

2008-06-30 Thread Pat Farrell
Phil Leigh wrote: Well, Pat...I guess as you are doing a MAC/IP bind that's sort of an alternate way of locking things down...neat. Kind of like DHCP one-shot :o) Yes, and its easy with the usual DHCP daemons that come with all the usual Linux distros. I do a lot of wireless networking stuff