Re:Tell HN: Hacker News now supports IPv6
by throw0101d on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @08:09AM
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> I don't understand why getting rid of DHCP is desirable.
It's less infrastructure to run, especially with embedded networks.
> DHCP provides a nice central place where you can map MAC addresses to IP addresses instead of configuring it ad-hoc on every device which needs a static IP address (if you're lucky and the device even supports static IP!).
You are limiting your thinking to macro-scale 'user-managed' devices, as opposed to things like embedded things:
It's less infrastructure to run, especially with embedded networks.
> DHCP provides a nice central place where you can map MAC addresses to IP addresses instead of configuring it ad-hoc on every device which needs a static IP address (if you're lucky and the device even supports static IP!).
You are limiting your thinking to macro-scale 'user-managed' devices, as opposed to things like embedded things:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_(standard)