Iptables question about peer-to-peer rules
Mark Nixon
manixdk at tiscali.dk
Tue Apr 5 20:36:23 UTC 2005
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
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