On Sunday 16 October 2005 01:15 pm, Donald D Henson wrote:
Question. It appears that the router is also a DHCP server. That means that I do not need to activate DHCP on any of my machines. Right?
Nope.... just go into YAST and set up your nics so they USE dchp. That's all that is needed.
I've set the router to start IP addresses at 192.168.1.2 and to issue a maximum of 50. Now if I configure all my network cards to use DHCP, NFS should work on all machines and all machines should be able to access the Internet. Right?
And that's the way You can let all
PC talk each other and let them access to the Internet at the same time. If you still want to use static IP instead of DHCP, you can assign ones outside of DHCP range on the Linksys, but still within the 192.168.1.x/24 subnet, as I wrote in my last email.
Given my objectives, is there any reason to have a subnet with static IPs?
Well maybe... (once you understand how things work :-) I use static IP addresses and place the names of all the machines into /etc/hosts If you use DHCP, you're not always going to know what IP address a particular machine has. With static IP's you would.