Re: DHCP

I do DHCP for on my home LAN for my laptop and my webcall TA. The
webcall box is MAC reserved so it gets the same address. All my fixed
hosts are static. I prefer static IPs for critical infrastructure (ie
servers and network gear), everything else can be DHCP.

For most non-technie home users, I'd probably still do DHCP. End-users
shouldn't really need to know anything about network addressing, there
is too much opportunitiy to introduce confusing errors (like assigning
the gateway IP to a host). I'd love to see tier-1 tech support sort
that out.

I've seen problems with DHCP on RHEL4 on a VM a couple of times where
there was a network outage which affected the virtual networking. The
DHCP client and/or the network scripts got into a bit of a hung state.

I haven't seen that problem with the VMs since I upgraded them RHEL5 nor
have I seen the problem on the physical hosts. They eventually recover
on their own.
Received on Mon Mar 24 10:19:40 2008