Re: DHCP

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Kurylo" <sk@infinitepigeons.org>
To: <linux@slg.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: DHCP

> I've always been a proponent of having all machines, even static ones,
> use DHCP. However I've always wondered what happens after a very long
> (longer than the lease) dhcpd outage. Now I'm really motivated to
> find out :-)

I'm the opposite. If my machine doesn't need DHCP, I don't use DHCP. If it
does, I have dhcpd configured to assign the same IP to that computer
consistently (unless it's a guest machine that is seldom there).

I know a lot of people think DHCP is reliable enough, and it is pretty
reliable, but static configuration is perfectly reliable. The only time
it's inconvenient is if you're doing network reconfiguration, and on a home
LAN that isn't a big deal.

Jim
Received on Mon Mar 24 09:21:58 2008