On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Fernando Cassia fcassia@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
So my practical advice is to get a SOHO router that does DHCP if you don't already have one, and if you do have one, configure it to give out the IP you want instead of fighting with the Centos setup.
I agree in principle. But my personal experience led me to have static routing on my home LAN.
If I enable DHCP I end up not knowing what IP address a 'new device' just plugged into the network has, at any given time.
Every DHCP server should have a way to configure a fixed IP address to be given out to a specified ethernet MAC address. My advice was to learn and use that way.
DHCP gives "initial" convenience, for "long term hassle". (say you want to telnet-in to your ethernet enabled media player)
No, DHCP will do what you tell it to do. The choice is whether you want to learn the quirks of configuring every device/OS that you might use on your network or the quirks of the one DHCP server.