[CLUE-Tech] Home network question

[David Snyder]

I run a DHCP server on my small LAN and it's VERY valuable!  If my dad/a 
guest/et al brings their computer over, all they have to do is just 
connect the network cable and they're ready to go.  Otherwise I'd have 
to fool with IP addresses, gateways, subnet masks, DNS's, etc.

Don't get me wrong, there are some uses for going static IP, but I would 
reserve that for servers and other machines where an IP address change 
would present problems.

For the gamers out there, a DHCP server just makes life *so* much easier 
to host a LAN party... I can say in the old days I remember fooling with 
monolithic IPX drivers and IPXODI drivers over coax nics - it took 2-3 
hours just to set the damn thing up!  Life has gotten so much easier 
since then...

David

Match Grun wrote:

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