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On Wednesday 29 September 2004 21:05, Dejan Nikic wrote: |
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> I have a static DSL ISP, but I know of plenty of people that have |
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> various provides that provide only DHCP. This might work in an |
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> enviroment that you know what's going on, but if you are connecting to |
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> one of these big networks who knows what goes on and what will happen |
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> if you try to asign an IP. Also who's to say that the IP you're gona |
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> use is not already used by another user on that network and it will |
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> drop him/her off. Now we don't want that, or do we? ;) |
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Many places that actually assign static IP's still use dhcp. It has a |
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number of advantages. One being that administration is centralised. |
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Another that one can change for example the name servers in the dhcp |
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config to change them on the network. I would advise anyone who |
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administers a nontrivial network to use dhcp to provide addresses. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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