Static IP address assignments [WAS Re: NIC Settings for IBM Thinkpad T30 / wired & wireless]

[Res]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Derek Broughton wrote:

>> is or not, most Linux users that I've ever come across always setup
>> static IP's, about 2% of teh people I've dealt with use DHCP.
>
> Of course he has a clue.  Your assertion is just plain nuts!  If 98% of
> computer users were using static IPs, we'd have run out of IPV4 addresses a
> decade ago.  Almost everybody uses DHCP because _we have to_.  And even if

Not really, if you are talking about obtaining from a service providor the 
majority still use radius, if you are talking about LAN's most people 
still staticly assign, at least in this part of the world.


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Res