On 2016-04-01 16:02, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 04/01/2016 06:16 AM, Dave Howorth wrote:
I'm old school and I just want a simple wired connection to my switch, with DHCP from my router beyond that. The PC is capable of wi-fi but I want that disabled.
What's the best way to reconfigure my PC to have the simplest network configuration?
This is a home system? only a few components such as the PC, a printer? All PERMANENTLY connected, that is hard wired to the switch?
Yes, it's a home system. A few PCs and a printer and a couple of TV boxes and several phones and a couple of mobile computers, plus whatever visitors bring. Connected to several switches connected to the router.
There really is no reason to use DHCP in something that simple. You're NOT hotelling a laptop that is going to be connected to different sites. You're not dealing with a phone or tablet connecting via wifi, that also might connect, again by wifi, to different sites. The latter specifically don't need, can't have, permanently assigned IP addresses.
The hard-wired, PERMANENTLY connected devices can.
THAT is the simplest, and also the most robust, network configuration.
That's what I used to do, but maintaining the files on all the machines is tiresome. So once we switched to DHCP at work, I switched to it at home as well. Only one device to manage seems to work for me. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org