Thx Tim, you have added to the reigning consensus, I appreciate your time to reply, jackc...
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:50 AM, Tim <ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 30 November 2012, Jack Craig sent: > > Pls consider a configuration with a single host providing NFS4 > > /home directories for other hosts in a 6 host cluster. Further, > > openldap is on the same host to provide for authentication > > on all 6. > > > > the architect says its ok to configure all hosts w/DHCP, > > but i see the ip changing every day or 2 (many reboots due setup). > > > > I am a huge fan of static ip for servers, but what do i know?! :( > > You want servers to have the same IPs, always. That can be done by > configuring the computers, individually. For clients, it's usually not > too much of an issue whether their IP changes. And it's usually easiest > to configure clients at the server. That way, you only have to > configure things on one machine (everything controlled on your server). > > For the clients, there are two alternatives to completely randomly > assigned dynamic addresses: Tying them to the same IPs, always. Or, it > may be good enough to simply make them far less likely to change IPs. > For cases where it's merely a question of convenience, and you don't > really need to fix them, just set your DHCP server so that default lease > times are long enough that a client will get the same IP as last time, > by default. > > If you use Samba, particularly with some actual Windows client machines, > you may find it works more smoothly if the client machines always use > the same IPs. SMB can be very slow at dealing with changes to addresses > of machines. > > -- > [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp > Linux 3.6.7-4.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 20 19:40:01 UTC 2012 x86_64 > > All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point > trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the > public lists. > > > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >
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