[mythtv-users] Static IP vs. DHCP

[Carl Reynolds]

There is another thread on the list about setting up server IPs and the 
common advice on th list and in the guides is that the backend should be 
set up on a local network with static IPs.

When I first set up my machine, I followed this advice, but because of 
various reasons, I needed to change my network to DHCP. I decided to try 
entering the backend server name instead of the IP address in the server 
address in myth-setup. It seems to work. The frontend sends a request to 
the DHCP server, gets the IP address of the backend server and then uses 
that to communicate with the backend.

What am I missing? Why do people say that you need to use static IPs 
with a split frontend/backend configuration? Is it because of the extra 
time needed to make the IP request from the DHCP server?



Thanks,
Carl.