Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 15 October 2007 00:43:26 James Knott wrote:
A static address, where the computer is manually configured with an address does not require a dhcp server. This is different from when the dhcp server is configured to reserve a specific IP for a given MAC address. In this situation, a computer will always have the same IP, even though dhcp is used.
"static" means "unchanging", it doesn't mean "written in a text file somewhere on the local computer".
A static IP can be handed out by a dhcp server. You're right of course that it doesn't *require* a dhcp server, but then no one said it did
Anders
While "static" means unchanging, in a computer network context a static address is one that's manually configured on the computer, as opposed to DHCP, which requires a server. That server can then be configured to always assign the same address or use the next available. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org