From: J Leslie Turriff via openSUSE Users <users@lists.opensuse.org> Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 01:54:52 -0500 . . . My question is, do I just have to use YaST LAN to switch my network setting from Static to DHCP, or are there other changes required? . . . Leslie The first thing to bear in mind is that /etc/hosts and DHCP are solving different problems: DHCP tells a computer "What address do I use?" and /etc/hosts tells it "What address is system X at?" As long as those answers are consistent for all values of X, on all systems, you can use both. (And the alternative for "What address is system X at?" would be something like DNS, which also involves keeping the answers consistent; there are advantages to switching to DNS, but probably not for a network the size of yours.) But what Lew says about Starlink vs. Netgear is very cogent. Decide what you want for your network topology first, and whether you really need DHCP, and which system should provide it; normally, you want exactly one DHCP server! Then, if you have to go the DHCP route, you should be able to get the DHCP server to assign fixed addresses based on the MAC (Ethernet interface hardware) address. These have to be outside the DHCP "pool" range, so you will probably have to go through and assign new fixed /etc/hosts addresses (which, I can attest, is a pain in the butt). -- Bob Rogers