[NCLUG] permanent IP addresses on a home LAN?

[dlc at frii.com]

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> dlc at frii.com wrote:
>>   Perhaps the quick and easy way to accomplish this is to just set your
>> systems up with a fixed IP address and ignore the DHCP.  Since DHCP
>> seems to assign starting with the low numbers first...
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> Benson Chow wrote:
>> Don't overlook the cheesy way out: hardcode IP addresses of machines
>> that you normally ssh to.  ...  DHCPds should
>> automatically avoid 'used' addresses if they're implemented
>> correctly - I've seen a lot of implementations from scanning the
>> subnet to simply  checking the IP for a response before assignment.
>
> Ick. Both of the above sound like relying on the internal implementation
> details of the DHCP server in question, which will soon lead to problems
> once the DHCP server is changed out with something else.
>
> Fortunately, there's a simpler way that seems to be implemented on even
> the most simple DHCP servers I've seen - i.e. if you have 192.168.1.0/24
> as your network, tell the DHCP server to assign e.g.
> 192.168.1.32-192.168.1.64, and hard-code your static IPs outside this
> range, e.g. 192.168.65-192.168.128. This will guarantee that there's
> never a clash.

  That sounds like a reasonable answer.

DLC