[CLUE-Tech] Home network question

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Here is a good reason to use DHCP on a home network: DHCP is very
common in many companies and even in CLUE. If you have a roving laptop
that you connect to various such networks (I know Matt has one), DHCP
is very convenient. I know that for the last two InstallFest's, I did
not need to reconfigure my laptop's IP when connecting to the network.

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On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 07:32:07 -0600
"Adam A. G. Shamblin" <signal9 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> At this point in a conversation about dhcp, I usually ask why it is
> necessary to run dhcp on such a small network.  On my own network,
> where every machine ultimately offers some sort of service, I never
> saw dhcp as useful beyond an academic exercise.
>