Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 06/04/06 13:58 CST: > I'm kind of shooting from the hip, but you can also control the router > DHCP to do these kind of things.
There are several reasons why I prefer to not do this. Of course, these are just my thoughts and YMMV. 1. I believe it easier to configure the machine itself with the static IP address, than it is to configure the machine for DHCP and the DHCP server with the MAC=IP. 2. You don't need DHCP software on the machine. 3. You don't have a single point-of-failure for your entire network. 4. You don't have to maintain a list of MAC=IP in a safe place should you need to replace a broken router and use the same addresses. 5. You don't have a long delay in booting if the router happens to be unavailable for whatever reason. These are just reasons that I came up with thinking about it for just a second. I'm sure folks could probably come up with more. However, the downside of having to update a whole bunch of host files when a new device is added to the network is one reason why you would want to have a central device maintain all the device's IP addresses. And keep in mind, this is only if you want static IP's. If a DHCP acquired address works for you, there is no reason not to use it. The only thing I'm not sure of in the configuration of my D-Link DI-524 is if it allows for resolving the assigned names of the devices it gives static IPs to. I do know that a device on my network right now that has a device name associated with it (as far as the D-Link is concerned) and was assigned a DHCP address cannot be resolved (by name) using a Linux machine on the same subnet. And that Linux machine has the D-Link router's IP address in /etc/resolv.conf. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.27] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 14:13:00 up 23 days, 6:13, 1 user, load average: 0.18, 0.23, 0.10 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
