On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:46:30 -0000, "Ivor Jones"
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>"Ian Pawson" <ian@ipawson.com> wrote in message
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>> Ah! The wonders of dhcp. To be avoided whenever possible.[/color]
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>Why..? It has its uses. Never had any problems with it myself.[/color]

The problem that people often encounter is that devices can get
reassigned a new IP address when they reboot , or some other change
takes place on the network without the user being aware of what has
happened. Then, when you try to connect to the device you find its not
present on the address you expected and you have to mess around
finding out where it is.

I have DHCP disabled on my home network and manually configure each
device individually so I know what address each one has.

I concede that on larger networks that may be difficult to manage, and
the advantages of DHCP may outweigh the disadvantages in those
circumstances.

Chris