On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste.fr> wrote: > DHCP separation can be nice, but it has also its downsides. > > It's definitely a nice choice because it makes programs a bit smaller. > However, a problem might appear in the (unlikely?) situation where a > user plays with a network-enabled program while his lease expires.
On home routers I've used, you can associate a device with an IP address and have the router always assign the same one. You can also set the time for a lease. While the above mentioned issue can be irritating, it's easy enough to work around, and anyone trying to attach a FreeDOS machine to a home network should be able to do it. FreeDOS *is* a techie toy, and making actual use of it requires various sorts of knowledge. I'm all in favor of separating DHCP from TCP. The FTP program needs an IP address. It should neither know nor care whether it was assigned by DHCP or is a static address. The question on the mentioned downside is "How likely is it to happen?" and the answer is "Not likely enough to justify efforts to work around it." If the user gets bit, they can change their router configuration. If they don't know how to do that, they are unlikely to be running FreeDOS in the first place. > Mateusz ______ Dennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
