[mythtv-users] Re: Why only numeric IP addresses work?

[Grant Edwards]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:08:01AM -0500, Michael J. Lynch wrote:

> >You do realize that static vs. dynamic and DHCP vs. non-DHCP
> >are orthogonal issues?  All my machines use DHCP, yet the
> >servers all have statically assigned addresses.  The
> >non-servers also use DHCP, but they have dynamic addresses.
> 
> Meaning that your servers are DHCP servers and the non-servers are
> DHCP clients?

No.  Everything is a DHCP client (except the firewall where the
DHCP server is -- it's a DHCP client on the WAN interface but
has a hard-wired IP address on the internal LAN).  However,
even on the internal LAN, I prefer to that the "server"
machines (the ones that provide file-serving, web-serving,
print-serving, etc.) have IP addresses that never change.
Therefore I assign static IP addresses to those machines.  The
remainder of the normal client/desktop type machines get IP
addresses dynamically allocated from a pool.

-- 
Grant Edwards
grante at visi.com