Greetings, For three years I used an old 486 running RH 5.2 as a router box. It was hooked to a cable modem one side and my local network on the other. It also ran as a file server under Samba, and used Apache to provide a web site for the local network only.
Recently I graduated to Dachstein on a floppy because of hard disk failure on the old 486. Besides, I did not get that much use out of the web site or the file server. I have run Dachstein for several weeks. Very happy with it. I setup all my local network machines to work off DHCP. Last week I tried Bearing. It worked fine for about a day, then (when the previous lease expired?) my windows98 machine was assigned a local network address in the 169.-.-. range. The standard Bearing release evidently does not support DHCP for the local network. I forgot to go back and reconfigure the win machine not to use DHCP. Evidently, if windows is configured for DHCP and does not find a DHCP server, it auto assigns IP addresses. Just another of those 'special' features that is not well documented and causes confusion. So now I have a question. What is the advantage of using DHCP on a small local network? I only have five computers on the network. Would I be better off to manually assign IP numbers? The only reason I used DHCP on the local network was because Dachstein provided it. I did not select DHCP because I thought I needed it. However, it did work and was convenient. Are there better reasons to use DHCP on a local network? Thanks in advance, Frank Kamp _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
