[HM] Re: X and networking question

[Florin Alexander Neumann]

On Monday, Oct 13, 2003, at 11:51 Canada/Eastern, Barry Lyden wrote:

> I move my laptops between my office and home, and from office to
> office, so the address needs to remain dynamic.

Indeed.

Yet, here are two points. (1) The laptop's address has to stay dynamic, 
but not the desktop machine's addresses. You'd still use the OS X 
discovery method to access the laptop from the desktop, but you could 
avoid delays when accessing the desktop machines from the laptop. (2) 
You could assign IP numbers to the nodes on your home network in the 
same range and with the same subnet mask as your office network (since 
you have a router, and therefore your home LAN IPs are not broadcast on 
the Internet). Then your laptop IP could be static. But, of course, 
neither may be applicable to your specific circumstances.

f