On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Bill Barry wrote: > > > It's your time, but DHCP was invented to take care of all of this for > you. > > If you then still want static IP addresses you can tell the router which > > MAC addresses to assign which IP addresses and all is done. > > Bill, > > I've 4 hosts on the network and static IPs have worked well for us. > ? > don't understand how DHCP will fix this current issue. Using the static IP > addresses the laptop can see all the internal hosts, including the gateway > router. If the wireless AP dhcp server assigns the same static IP address > to the laptop how does that allow it to get outside when it now cannot? > > Because it does not just assign the IP address, it sets up the routes and the DNS all with the current information from the router. Plus when you unhook the laptop and take it somewhere else, you will be using DHCP anyway so you will not have to change the configuration. Bill _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
