On 8/9/24 23:54, J Leslie Turriff via openSUSE Users wrote:
Long ago (openSUSE 6.3?) when I had only one machine and an analog modem, I set up /etc/hosts to map my IP address; as time went on I added a router, a network printer, an OS-X machine, etc., but my network was small enough that I could manage the devices with /etc/hosts. Currently I have satellite IP routed through a NetGear WiFi router, in which I have assigned the static addresses in my /etc/hosts file, but I want to migrate to the StarLink system that I recently bought. Unfortunately, the StarLink system's built-in router is a Black Box :-( that only supports devices via DHCP. (It is already handling a WiFi laptop and several smart phones; the legacy devices on the NetGear router use an Ethernet network.)
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? (Both routers use the same 192.168.x.x address range, so it seems to me that just moving the Ethernet cable from one router to the other without assigning a new address ought to work, but there is no way to talk to the StarLink router if there is an address collision with devices it has already assigned.)
My /etc/hosts currently looks like this:
If I were you I'd just plug the StarLink directly in to my NetGear router's WAN interface and let it worry about DHCP. You could then keep everything on the LAN side of the router the same. I wouldn't trust StarLink's firewall anyway, use the one in your NetGear to protect yourself. Be sure to let us know how the StarLink connection works out for you! Regards, Lew