Using names, not IP addresses, in home network

[Dotan Cohen]

> And another method would be to have your router hand out specific IP addresses
> based on the MAC address of each computer.   And then use /etc/hosts to point
> to the specific IP addresses by name.
>

The problem is that I could not give each machine a static IP address
as the laptop is often moved to other networks. However, on your
suggestion I looked and sure enough my router can give addresses based
on MAC address, and that solved the problem. Thanks!

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