On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 6:32 PM Scott Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Apr 2023 at 18:53, o1bigtenor via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > > PasberryPi Pico w lan 8720 module (I lprefer wired communications - - > > security) > > I found this article: > https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/how-to-add-ethernet-to-raspberry-pi-pico/ > > If you follow it, your Pico will obtain an IP address from the router > (or other DCHP server) using DHCP. Therefore, for example, if you set > your router's DHCP server to assign addresses for 172.16.0.0 with a > mask of 255.255.0.0 (or 172.16.0.0/16), it would be able to hand out > up to 65534 IPv4 addresses (not including the router itself) in the > range of 172.16.0.1 to 172.16.255.254 > > If you need the Pico to have a fixed IP address, most DHCP servers can > be set to assign specific IP addresses based on the device's MAC > address. > > I haven't looked further but it's also very likely that you can > configure the ethernet port of the Pico itself to have a static IP > address and a mask of any length. > > Also the article that I had read.
What you have written is the direction that I've been thinking. Its easy- - its straightforward. I understand its not sexy - - - like using the 192.168.1.1/16 but it will get the job done. My only concern is what I do for when I switch to ipv6 (its in the cards likely inside of 18 to 24 months) - - - - the information that I've found on ipv6 so far is all for small scale networks - - - under 30 or so devices - - - - maybe I'll have to start looking for information on ipv6 and 500 to 2000 devices. Oh well - - - - thanks to one and all for the information. Hopefully was at least somewhat interesting - - - - grin. Regards --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
