On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 02:02:58PM -0500, Peter wrote:
> --- Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > > Do you usually assign static IPs?
> >
> > Yes, on a small LAN such as this - why not? It cuts out one bad idea
> > (DHCP), and does not have any disadvantages I can see. Except maybe
> > that you need to update the DNS server(s) on all the Windows boxes
> > if it changes. And yes, that's happened to me...
>
> Why is DHCP a bad idea?
It introduces nasty points of failure and is generally useless for a
static machine population. Not to mention the fact that spoofing DHCP
isn't very hard, though the same goes for many other important
networking protocols.
If you receive lots of visitors with laptops, allow them their own
DHCP'ed /24, or /25, or something. Otherwise, static IPs work just fine,
and I like knowing which machine has which address all the time
(granted, a halfway decent DHCP implementation does that too).
Joachim
