[LUNI] WiFi Access Point recommendations

[Larry Garfield]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:05:14 -0500, Martin Maney <maney at two14.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 07:14:48PM -0500, Larry Garfield wrote:
>> You can't assign that a specific system always gets the same IP, but
> gets it
>> assigned via DHCP?  Given that I have a mail server behind the router
> that
>> would be a rather show-stopping problem. :-)  (I see no reason to
> statically
>> configure a computer in the 21st century when DHCP is supposed to do
> that all
>> for you.)
> 
> Shucks, there's plenty of reasons... like not depending on the DHCP
> server to be working, or sane, or not subverted, especially if other
> machines rely on its address (you really want your local DNS resolver's
> IP address to be so changeable? <grin>).  OTOH, there are reasons not
> to assign fixed addresses in a lot of cases.  Like most things, it's a
> tradeoff, and any dogmatic answer will be wrong some of the time.
> 
> You really want the reachability of your server to depend on the
> vagaries of some $50 piece of disposable plastic junk?  :-)

It's been dependent on a free piece of junk computer for the past 5 years just fine. :-)  

Seriously though, even without the server my desktops all have static addresses (required for port forwarding for games and such), and configuring them all statically is not something I should have to deal with, and haven't had to for years.  I don't see why I need to start now.

--Larry Garfield