[App_rpt-users] Static IP

[Bryan D. Boyle]

let's see...why would you use static instead of dhcp?

1. one less item to try and figure out once set.
2. single point/simple configuration.
3. network is subnetted more finely than a /24 with firewalls between segments
4. if someone is having difficulties figuring out how to config an ip on a server, sending them into the bowels of a router to hardwire a mac address (and where to find it in the multiciplicity of web front ends)... it's probably easier to nail the server down to get it working than to figure out advanced router settings.  simple is good.  in making things more flexible, sometime the stuff under the hood adds complexity on the other side.

in 20-something years of running everything from a class a network (12.x.x.x), through a class b (159.70.x.x) to having my own registered full class c, 
in my experience, i've found it more reliable to set servers on a fixed address, reserving dhcp for the transients.  but, that's me.  saves a step, is predictable, and less painful.  but, that's me.
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Bryan
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On Oct 18, 2013, at 15:32, "KP4TR (Ramon Gonzalez)" <kp4tr.ramon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> A little off topic, but there must be a good reason as to why you want to use static ip. Not that its wrong, but if you do, there are implications and you have to understand them and also set accordingly other settings like your default route and your dns servers.
> 
> Obviously you didnt set your dns servers and/or didn't set your default route. 
> 
> If you know what this is, fix accordingly. If you don't use DHCP as it is by default set in most linux distributions, and fix the port forwards on your router so Allstar forwards to the right IP, and get a router that can do IP/DHCP reservations by MAC address to assign the same IP to your Allstar box.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Oct 18, 2013, at 1:07 PM, Richard Szajkowski <va3rzs at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Ok having a problem with static IP
>> 
>> I set it via set up , rebooted the system 
>> Did a ifconfig and I see the right info
>> 
>> But for some reason I can't get to the outside world 
>> 
>> Some one said I needed to do a DNS update , I can't find that info, 
>> 
>> Thanks for all your help
>> 
>> Richard Szajkowski
>> 
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