slwiser;267892 Wrote: > Will the router automatically find the SQ with the new IP this way? I > thought the router controlled access not the device itself?
On a local network the router isn't doing anything, the devices are responsible for knowing their own IP addresses and communicating with each other. You could set all the IPs manually and not even have a router, just a dumb switch, and it would all work fine (and that's how we used to do it!). DHCP makes things easier to manage by allowing a central device (in this case your router, but it doesn't have to be) to dish out IP addresses to anything that needs one. When it comes to actual communication it doesn't matter where the IP came from, just that it's unique. -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43298 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
