JJZolx;504581 Wrote: > I would seriously reexamine your need to use static IP addresses. For > some odd reason, people seem to believe using static IPs solves some > unknown networking issues. Using DHCP allows you to reconfigure your > entire network in a matter of minutes, in one central location. The > only thing using static IP addresses can really overcome is the failure > of the DHCP server itself.
For historical reasons I've developed many scripts and configurations that now rely on the static IPs and reworking them would be a pain <-- this in itself is probably the primary reason not to use static IP, but my network's not overly complex even when I bring into the picture additional devices. If I'm not mistaken, using DHCP makes me reliant on having a DHCP server up at all times, whereas currently I can just turn on those devices I want to work with and my switch and I know they'll see one another. Erland also makes a good point, I have a Windows machine on the network also, and my experience is that using IPs in favour of hostnames is more reliable. I learned yesterday that my ADSL router supports binding MACs to IPs, which would I guess give me one place to manage the lot, and presumably automatically provides gateway and DNS info, so this may be an option. -- audiomuze *If you want continued support for Customscan and Custombrowse plugins, vote for 'Bug #6023 - New plugin hooks to implement scanning functions' (https://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6023) and let Plugin developers do what Logitech won't.* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ audiomuze's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33613 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73714 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
