How many network engineers are boat owners at your marina? I know of
2, here. The rest of them will be glad to let the DHCP server on the
router take care of their mundane networking details, allowing them to
simply turn on the new device hooked to the LAN and the router
autoconfigures it.

Boaters LOVE Plug 'n Pray.



On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:13:36 GMT, Bruce in Alaska
wrote:

In article ,
(Larry W4CSC) wrote:

SOMEONE in an ethernet system has to be in
CONTROL, assigning IPs and controlling the movement of packets. It's
not just a broadcast medium. Again, we have the old problem of ONE
talker and a bunch of listeners, just like NMEA0183.

Well not really Larry, someone has to assign IP address's, but if one
does Static IP Assignments then you only have to do it once per device.
Ethernet doesn't have talkers and listners as such. ALL Devices are BOTH
and the protocol and timing decides who's turn it is to talk next, while
everyone else listens.

Bruce in alaska
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Larry W4CSC

No, no, Scotty! I said, "Beam me a wrench.", not a WENCH!
Kirk Out.....