On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 20:47 -0300, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote: > Mark Nixon wrote: > <snip> > >As far as I can see, with the 3-4 machines I have on my little LAN, it's > >not worth assigning fixed addresses? > > > > > It depends.. I preffer to have fixed addresses.. Since my brother runs > linux 100% of the time and sometimes I need to access data on his > computer when I'm on windows , I need to know the IP address he uses... > Also , if you want to open a service to the outside world (or you need > to open a port for bittorrent , for example) you'll probably need a > static IP... Most cable/adsl routers cant make port forwarding to > dynamic addresses.... Since I have a few services running here , I must > have a static IP... > But DHCP helps a lot , since it removes the burden of configuring all > machines on the network... Nothing is simpler than plug in the cable , > run ifdown eth0; ifup eth0 (or ipconfig /renew on windows machines)... OK, thanks, Pedro, for your help. I've got it working now. I'm reading everything I can get my hands on about this LANs. Mark
