[X4U] IP address on local network

[Daly Jessup]

>Thanks for the information.  I thought DHCP had some security 
>advantage.  But, if it's mostly just an easy way to give out IP 
>addresses, I'll have to try this hybrid method.
>
>On Apr 24, 2009, at 8:23 PM, Daly Jessup wrote:
>
>>Static IPs allow us to set up access to our home network from 
>>remote computers, with ports forwarded to local IP addresses that 
>>will not be changing now and then.  But when a visitor comes to our 
>>home and tries to connect to our local network, they will be able 
>>to get an IP address by DHCP without my having to know their MAC 
>>address.

To tell the truth, I'm not very savvy with these things, and don't 
understand what the difference would be between having Network Pref 
Pane use DHCP with manual IP assignment, or having the router reserve 
IP addresses by MAC address.

Either way, it seems your computer gets a "permanent" internal IP address.

Can some more geeky person explain the difference? (Or is the 
question so ignorant as to make it unanswerable short of a book?)

Daly
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