Frank,
The primary reason a Network Administrator uses DHCP is LAZYness, ;-)
instead of having to go around and "hard set" every client on a network,
when you have 200+ clients it's a whole lot easier to allow the client to
gain their IP address automatically.
There are a few other reasons too...
If you make configuration changes to the network ie new gateway IP or new
DNS's these changes can happen dynamically at the client machine.
It is mostly just a tool to make life easier, it is not required and in
somecases ( like yours ) assigning 5 IP's to 5 machines and walking away is
easier than going through the trouble of getting DHCP set up ( which really
isn't too hard ).
Either way you want to go is the right answer for you.
Take care,
Steve
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Subject: [Leaf-user] Dachstein, Bearing, and DHCP
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
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