On Friday 13 February 2004 1:01 pm, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 11:08, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Can anyone offer an opinion on the pros and cons of using DHCP versus fixed IP addresses to set up the IP addresses for my small local network?
For a small local lan fixed is probably better, no server to maintain (configure).
In my situation we have over 50 offices/600 users throughout the U.S. so dhcp works better for us.
Perhaps I should have explained my situation in a little more detail. I have a small home network using fixed IP addresses, and it's worked quite well for me. But I've been considering attaching a thin client, which I think might need DHCP. So the only reason to switch would be to make the thin client happy. I suppose, ideally, I'd keep the fixed addresses for my existing machines and put the thin client on DHCP, but my impression is that the addressing has to be either all fixed or all DHCP. Paul Abrahams