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

[Derek Broughton]

NoOp wrote:

> On 10/30/2007 07:08 AM, Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
>> You've got the router, so just go into it's configuration interface,
>> where you should be able to find a page that lets you specify the MAC
>> addresses for interfaces to be allowed on the LAN, and an address to give
>> to that
>> MAC.  Then you don't need to have multiple (potentially out of
>> synch) /etc/hosts files, and there's only one simple web page to modify
>> to keep a set of static local IPs.
> 
> And why do that when you only have a few machines instead of just
> assigning static IP's to them? that's just added work.

Where is the added work?  If you do it in your router's web interface, you
have one page to edit.  If you do it on every computer on the lan - even if
there are only two, you have to do it in two places.  If, like my lan,
every one of those computers dual boots Windows & Linux, you have to do it
in two places on every machine.

>   Further, if I build VPN's into my remote networks, static IP's on the
> lan side are critical - 

No, _fixed_ IPs are critical - but as long as the DHCP server can fix them,
there's no reason they shouldn't be dynamic.

-- 
derek