On Wednesday 29 September 2004 21:05, Dejan Nikic wrote:
> I have a static DSL ISP, but I know of plenty of people that have
> various provides that provide only DHCP.  This might work in an
> enviroment that you know what's going on, but if you are connecting to
> one of these big networks who knows what goes on and what will happen
> if you try to asign an IP.  Also who's to say that the IP you're gona
> use is not already used by another user on that network and it will
> drop him/her off.  Now we don't want that, or do we? ;)

Many places that actually assign static IP's still use dhcp. It has a 
number of advantages. One being that administration is centralised. 
Another that one can change for example the name servers in the dhcp 
config to change them on the network. I would advise anyone who 
administers a nontrivial network to use dhcp to provide addresses.

Paul

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