Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>
>>> What's the point, though, unless you're in a setup where 90%+ of the
>>> computers change every year[1]?
>> Because client creation is much easier if you just tell it to DHCP
>> rather than spending time to punch in technobabble numbers each time.
> Huh? You get the mac address how? Looks to me like you're trading
> the need to type a simple IP address with a much larger complexity on
> the server side, whatever you do.
ifconfig gives mac addresses last i checked. One just makes a note of
the mac addresses of their serves, attach the same ip to the mac
address everytime, and then everything can be run on dynamic IPs.
That's not a horrible idea, but not really simpler than assigning the IP
directly - and it gets a little weird when you start copying vmware
images around in ways that make them want to make up new mac addresses.
There's also a problem where you have multiple nics and need to assign
some non-default static routes to one or more. I don't think there is a
way to do that with dhcp.
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