NFS help

[Mark Knecht]

On 8/26/05, brad.mugleston at comcast.net <brad.mugleston at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Mark Knecht wrote:
> 
> > On 8/26/05, brad.mugleston at comcast.net <brad.mugleston at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > OK, I understand that - but I've only done /etc/hosts with fixed
> > > IP's.  How does that work with DHCP assigned IP's?
> > >
> > What's wrong with using fixed IPs? If you have only 5-10 devices then
> > why not just have them be fixed and be done with it?
> >
> > I see no value to the complexity of DHCP in this case.
> >
> > Just my 2 cents,
> > Mark
> >
> Mark,
> 
> Your 2 cents are worth more than that and if I was doing this for
> anything important I probably would give it a fixed IP.  BUT I'm
> trying to figure this stuff out (like my kids say) "JUST CAUSE".

That's a completely fine reason.

I do not know the answer to your question in terms of really running a
network and having my laptop find my wife's machine called dragonfly
when dragonfly is given an address using DHCP.

In the end, and yes I was intersted in this same subject once, I
decided logically that when the network wasn't working for some reason
I didn't want to determine if it was a machine problem or a DHCP
server problem or something else so I've always stuck to fixed IP
address. The bedroom is .30, my son's room is .40 the living room is
.50, etc. It's simple an has rarely failed me.

> 
> If in the real world people do this with fixed IP's then I'll do
> that (the machine I'm on has a fixed IP for other such reasons).
> BUT for learning I thought I'd try it with DHCP.
> 
Sure. Learning is good!

Cheers,
Mark