[LUNI] WiFi Access Point recommendations

[Martin Maney]

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?  :-)

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