On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 18:26:40 -0500 J Leslie Turriff via openSUSE Users <users@lists.opensuse.org> wrote:
On 2024-08-10 02:11:51 Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
The subject sounds like apples vs. oranges.
On 10.08.2024 09:54, 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.
I do not understand it. Do you mean that if you statically configure the same address (and other parameters) that would have been received via DHCP it will not work? Have you tried it?
Maybe I should have asked a simpler question: If DHCP gets a request from an unknown machine on the local network, does it consult the /etc/hosts file in that machine and try to provide that address?
No, a DHCP server follows rules based on its own configuration. I find it difficult to believe you can't change the Starlink network, but I'm sure you CAN change the Netgear's network. So set up your machines/devices to get their network address by DHCP from the Netgear, then change its configuration so it uses a different network. e.g. 192.168.2.0. Then all your machines will automatically switch to the new network.
Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.5 - x86_64