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Why is there no DHCP Lease settings on a $200+ top tear router?
I need a Router with a DHCP Less time setting, I'm going to have to sell my R7000 or custom flash it becase a DHCP Lease time of 24hrs is a Very very short sighted setting. This setting causes 10's o...
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I often use ip addresses for id. purposes. When I look at the address I know what the device is, like Canon printer, Brother printer or ip camera, NAS, etc. What is wrong with that when you say "shouldn't use assigned ip address"?
VE6CGX wrote:I often use ip addresses for id. purposes. When I look at the address I know what the device is, like Canon printer, Brother printer or ip camera, NAS, etc. What is wrong with that when you say "shouldn't use assigned ip address"?
There is nothing wrong, per se. Humans are just better at remembering names than numbers. It's one of the reasons why DNS exists. It's easier to remember community.netgear.com versus 208.74.205.20 (yes, this is this forum's real IP address) or ipv6.google.com versus 2607:f8b0:4005:806::200e. Wouldn't you prefer to refer to your devices by name (e.g. "Canon", "Brother", "KitchenCam", "NAS")?
The other benefit of using a name is that the address can change and it wouldn't matter. Computers can handle it transparently, unless you go out of your way to hard code addresses.
Sure, it's not that hard to remember a few IPv4 addresses that differ only in the last quad. What are you going to do when IPv6 becomes mainstream and we rid ourselves of NAT? Although DHCPv6 exists, it's more common for devices to autocalculate their own address based on their MAC address. You're better off by not clinging onto IPv4 addresses as a crutch.