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Re: Multifunction color laser with network

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In article <isena5$ksj$3@dont-email.me>, J G Miller  <miller@yoyo.ORG> wrote:
> On Saturday, June 4th, 2011 at 19:20:20h -0400, Hactar wrote:
> 
> > That can be through DHCP, as long as DHCP is tweaked to give out the
> > same address every time.  That's how I do every computer that's commonly
> > on my LAN.
> 
> Is that not rather pointless though?

Well, if you decide to reconfigure the network, all the static
assignments are in one place rather than scattered across lots of
devices, most of which aren't available at any given time.

For one person and a handful of devices, it's about the same amount of
work as setting static addresses.  For more, DHCP wins.

> Why not just configure each host to assign its own static IP address
> and cut out the overhead of DHCP?

That overhead is only done once per address-timeout (a week, in my
case), at IP-up time.  It's not something that happens with every packet
or anything.

> Unless of course all of your hosts are laptops which go a-roaming.

Some are, and that's where it's of significant benefit.  Some are
printers or print servers.  (Actually my printer doesn't support DHCP.)

-- 
"On two occasions I have been asked, -- 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put
into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'
... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas
that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage, 1864.

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  Re: Multifunction color laser with network J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2011-05-29 23:49 +0000
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  Re: Multifunction color laser with network ray <ray@zianet.com> - 2011-05-30 01:11 +0000
  Re: Multifunction color laser with network Andreas Dehmel <blackhole.8.zarquon42@spamgourmet.com> - 2011-05-30 20:02 +0200
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    Re: Multifunction color laser with network Richard Corden <richard.corden@gmail.com> - 2011-06-02 10:05 +0200
      Re: Multifunction color laser with network ray <ray@zianet.com> - 2011-06-02 15:17 +0000
        Re: Multifunction color laser with network ebenZEROONE@verizon.net (Hactar) - 2011-06-04 19:20 -0400
          Re: Multifunction color laser with network J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2011-06-05 01:48 +0000
            Re: Multifunction color laser with network ebenZEROONE@verizon.net (Hactar) - 2011-06-04 23:58 -0400
        Re: Multifunction color laser with network Richard Corden <richard.corden@gmail.com> - 2011-06-06 10:10 +0200
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