Re: [SLE] Re: DCHP versus fixed IP addresses
From: Daryl Lee (dlee_at_altaregos.com)
Date: 02/13/04
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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:25:34 -0500 To: SuSEList <suse-linux-e@suse.com>
I went to the trouble to set up DHCP for the simple reason that I use my
company laptop on my home network (as I type this, for instance). I
don't want to reconfigure it every time I switch environments--it's
easier to go through the configuration effort one time to set up DHCP
and DNS on my Linux box at home. My network consists of a SuSE 9.0
server, a Win98 workstation used by my wife, a WinXP used by me and my
wife, and a Win2K laptop used by me. With a little effort learning
something about DHCP, DNS, and SMB, you can have a very hospitable
effort, with no effort at all required if a guest shows up and wants to
hook their laptop into your network for reading their email.
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 06:07:58PM +0100, Felipe Leon wrote:
> >Can anyone offer an opinion on the pros and cons of using DHCP versus
> >fixed IP
> >addresses to set up the IP addresses for my small local network? Or
> >point me
> >to a document on the subject?
> >
> >Paul Abrahams
>
>
> Well, from my own experience (quite limited) I can tell you that I had
> better luck with assigning a static addres to each computer on my home
> network. My problem: name resolution. I didnt want to run an internal
> DNS server and if you are using dhcp as the ip addresses my change you
> will have to run ifconfig all the time to find out which ip address is a
> client using. With static ip addresses to ping a computer by its name is
> just a matter of including ip address, name and alias of the hosts in
> your network in each of the /etc/hosts/ files. Again this is only
> practical if you have a very simple network (like mine: a firewall, and
> three SuSE boxes), also this wouldnt impede you from running services in
> your internal network. For bigger networks, the static ip address scheme
> would be a bit tedious if you want to do it in every computer (although
> exist other things like NIS but I don't know much about it). So finally
> my advice: if you are unexperienced, start by the static scheme and as
> you go along and discover more things you want to do with your network,
> read about dhcp: http://www.dhcp.org/
> dns:
> http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/
> nis, and others to make your network more fancy. Other people could tell
> you the opposite about dhcp because it automates all tcp/ip parameters
> so you don't have to do anything but for the learning experience I see
> no problem on playing a bit with assigning ip addresses, subnets, and
> default gateways on your private network.
>
> HTH
>
> Felipe.
>
>
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