EricBergan;592580 Wrote: > > As for why? My network monitoring software reports traffic associated > by IP address, so it's nice to have them all stay the same. Yes, can do > it in the router, but why should I have to when the product used to > support it? >
If you're running network monitoring software, you should probably use a more competent DHCP server than whatever junk was installed on your router. Home routers typically fail to implement two important DHCP features: 1) they MUST save their DHCP leases to non-volatile memory so that on reboot the leases are known. Most home routers do not do this, which means if the router and some other device lose power, when the other device requests DHCP, the router may give it the IP of a device that is already in use. That is bad. 2) DHCP servers SHOULD do a backup sanity check before issuing an answer: they should attempt to ping the IP they are about to hand out to make sure there is no such device on the network (in cases where the leases file is incomplete... see above...) Most home routers don't do this either. If you're running network monitoring software: you have the equipment to run a DHCP server that can outsmart the cheap belkin/linksys/netgear junk. Use a package like dns-masq and you can do neat things: [gimli:~] 2:18:50pm 60 % ping touch. PING touch (192.168.2.17) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from touch (192.168.2.17): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=2.05 ms etc. (Ie, dns-masq adds the DHCP hostname to DNS...) -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83424 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
