On 01/21/2015 11:14 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
Sometimes static makes sense because it is simple.
Clearly this isn't one of those times, hence Stanislav's predicament.
As James says, statically connected LAN devices are ... Static.
N y home system has a firewall/switch/router that CAN do DHCP but why? All the things connected to it are permanently on,
Permanently is relative for things electric. But even if it was, so what? Renewing an IP presents no disruption, no load on your network, and, if you are doing it even halfway right will result in the SAME IP every time. Mac Address Reservations.....
More to the point, I access them all from my desktop, which apart from my phone an tablet are the only 'screens. Everything else is 'headless', the router, the printer, the wifi router the voip.
So on my desktop I have a /etc/hosts file with all those permanent addresses.
That is not simple as best I can tell. (I mean its fine if its JUST you that has to reference some device by name/IP but when there are 5 computers in the house plus 12 portable devices, it becomes unworkable). IP reservations do this in the DHCP server. Once connected, you can tell it to reserve an IP for a specific mac address. Sometimes this is as easy as a check box, other times its another entry on another screen in the router's interface. I tried Statics. Its a total mess, especially with coming and going devices in the house like tablets laptops and cell phones. True, any competent DHCP server can work around "usurped" static IPs, but this can cause all manor of problems depending on boot-up order. If you have to have a static, put them all together in a range, and tell the DHCP server not to use that range. But in the 15 years since I abandoned Statics, I've seen only one convincing case for use of a static, and that is for the internal IP of my main server which is also my gateway. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org