Anton Aylward wrote:
On 04/01/2016 11:47 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
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?
There really is no reason to use DHCP in something that simple.
Sure there is - visitors for instance. Besides, DHCP is much easier than manually configuring every device. IMO.
Per, I was talking about the PERMANENTLY HARD-WIRED devices and I maintain my assertion.
You are talking about visitors. Visitors are NOT, repeat NOT *permanently* *hard-wired*.
Okay.
Whether the visitor comes in as a phone/tablet/laptop with wifi talking tro the wifi router that hangs off the main LAN and has the port on the LAN with a permanent address so that it can be config'd using a browsed on the PC on the main LAN) or plugs into a socket somewhere that is configured for DHCP doesn't matter.
That's certainly how I have my system set up to deal with visitors.
But the PERMANENTLY HARD-WIRED and 'resident' devices, my PC, the database server under my desk, the printer, the Linksys ATA for my phones see browser mode admin above), my wifi router (see browser mode above) all have static WAN addresses.
Why bother? when you've got DHCP running anyway, it's easier to let it hand out the fixed addresses too, IMHO. It's a standard one-liner in dhcpd.conf as opposed to fiddling with various interfaces on different devices.
Oh, and I use DNSmasq. Guess why? As the man page says, it "also answers DNS queries for DHCP configured hosts".
Sure, that's what a DNS is for. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (12.9°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - virtual servers, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org