[HM] Re: X and networking question

[Barry Lyden]

Good ideas actually. I will give them some thought. Thanks!

B


On 10/13/03 7:18 PM, "Florin Alexander Neumann" <alexn at ica.net> wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
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