"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message
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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.

Like mentioned earlier: let all nodes send only broadcasts. That way, no
device on the net needs a unique IP address. Every device could be factory
programmed with the same IP address.

Meindert