On 4/27/2013 5:27 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I have seen a home router from a cable ISP (obtained free of charge) with a dhcp4 server that can tie IPs to MACs. But then, it has no DNS server, and the interface is cumbersome: IIRC, it reboots on each entry you add.
Every router I have purchases or randomly bumped into over the last many years has a DHCP server built in with mac-address reservations. Its not rare, its the norm, even with Cable ISP supplied routers. Most of them supply WINS services too. As for a Router with built in DNS servers, that too is becoming the norm in recent years. But unless you are going to be setting up some sort of split horizon DNS scheme, its seldom really necessary to have an in-house DNS server. When running windows, its never really necessary. When running linux you might have a problem finding other local linux machines by name (rather than IP) but running something like ddclient on each will allow you to resolve local names via Dyndns.org (or equivalent). -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org