On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 13:29 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I'm going to try DHCP on my little LAN, following advice from Rick Moen
> and others.
> But I don't actually see why it should be any harder or easier
> to install a distribution with dhcp.
>
You might want to have a look at DNSMasq:
http://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html
It neatly ties in DHCP and DNS on your local network, so you can use
hostnames to connect to other machines on your network without having to
put them in your /etc/hosts file.
Projects like IPCop use it, and some of the Linksys firmware projects
use it as well.
Do you have a firewall at home? (e.g. not a simple broadband router).
If not, what will you be using for your DHCP server?
Phil
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