NFS help

[brad.mugleston at comcast.net]

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, inode0 wrote:

> On 8/26/05, brad.mugleston at comcast.net <brad.mugleston at comcast.net> wrote:
> > 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".
> >
> > 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.
>
> Brad,
>
> You can have dhcp give out fixed-addresses based on mac's and enter
> the appropriate stuff into DNS to resolve the name/ip assigned by
> dhcp. Using dhcp on your home network is quite nice once you get it
> set up because every subsequent installation is that much easier ...
> tweak the dhcp configuration and just install using dhcp. Running a
> caching nameserver with resolution of your internal IPs is a "good
> neighbor" thing to do too imo.
> John
>

So, why bother with DHCP if  your going to assign a fixed IP
anyway?  Just wondering...