I have read all of your comments and here are a couple of things that I did not mention in my first post. Both the default gateway and nameserver are set to the router ip address. I am not even able to ping the router or any other device on the lan. With a static ip address ifconfig shows eth0 with the correct ip address. Using dhcp ifconfig shows eht0 with no ip address. While using dhcp it always times out and I get the message 'setup in progress'. I believe there was a kernel update in the last batch of updates. Could the e1000e module be broken. The computer acts like everything is okay with the network and is just waiting for a response from the router. The router on the other hand never receives any data from the computer. I will get the ifconif-eth0 file posted as soon as I can get it over to this computer. I have looked it over and see nothing different from the same file on the machine I am using now. On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 11:45 AM, Anton Aylward <opensuse@antonaylward.com> wrote:
On 09/10/17 11:02 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
I assign ip's to expected instruments, phone, tablet, laptops, and allow the router to assign addresses to "other" machines. wifi is just another connection different than wire.
While a good DHCP + DNS set-up can handle the dhcp telling the dns about devices, having static, predefined addresses for key devices like the printer, the router/gateway can simplify a lot of things about configuration and debugging.
It can also simplify ACLs. Personally I hate the idea of early binding ACLs but sometimes it is very useful.
I can tell my printer to refuse any device on the network that isn't my PC, my phone or or my laptop or my tablet. It is a simple security hack.
I'm sure Patrick can give other illustrations.
-- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?
-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org