Knurpht - Gertjan Lettink wrote:
A thing I've seen a couple of times now, is routers that are able to hand out fixed IP's for certain MAC addresses, in some occasions advertised in the interface as "static configuration", which IMHO is at least confusing if not completely wrong.
No, that is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. With that, you can leave your devices in the default state (dhcp) and still have fixed addresses assigned. We discussed that only a few weeks back. I've been using such a setup for 10+ years.
Another thing I've seen is machines with static IP that borked an entire network because they used an IP in de DHCP range.
Typically a DHCP server will check the arp table to see if a supposedly unassigned address is already used by someone (statically), but I doubt if all DHCP servers do this. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (14.3°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