DHCP vs Static inside Home network

[Wesley Novack]

On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 13:44 -0500, vodhner at cox.net wrote:
> Thanks to all who replied.
> 
> Alex Dean wrote:
> > ... by keeping DHCP running, you make it easy for
> > guests who bring over laptops to join your network.
> 
> Oops, I hadn't thought of that!
> I was just thinking of the two boxes that live here.
> We do occasionally have visitors who plug in.
> 
> I don't think my off-brand router lets me reserve
> IPs under the DHCP service, and it does change the
> assignments ... Our XP box lost Samba workgroup
> contact with the Linux box because the latter
> apparently moved to 192.168.1.24 which ZoneAlarm
> did not have as a trusted IP.  (Does the free
> version of ZoneAlarm accept 192.168.1.* in the
> local network definition?)
I haven't used ZoneAlarm in awhile, but when I did in the past the free
version had the ability to set a trusted IP range (eg 192.168.1.1 -
192.168.1.255)

Not sure if this capability is still in tact with the latest free
versions...

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Thank you,

Wesley Novack
http://wesleytech.com