Iptables question about peer-to-peer rules

[hackmiester]

I have it set up for DHCP and that's how my friends and my mom get their IPs 
when they are over. I use statics for my machines though.
-hackmiester
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a test.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Nixon" <manixdk at tiscali.dk>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: Iptables question about peer-to-peer rules


> On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 20:47 -0300, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:
>> Mark Nixon wrote:
>>
>
> <snip>
>
>> >As far as I can see, with the 3-4 machines I have on my little LAN, it's
>> >not worth assigning fixed addresses?
>> >
>> >
>> It depends.. I preffer to have fixed addresses.. Since my brother runs
>> linux 100% of the time and sometimes I need to access data on his
>> computer when I'm on windows , I need to know the IP address he uses...
>> Also , if you want to open a service to the outside world (or you need
>> to open a port for bittorrent , for example) you'll probably need a
>> static IP... Most cable/adsl routers cant make port forwarding to
>> dynamic addresses.... Since I have a few services running here , I must
>> have a static IP...
>> But DHCP helps a lot , since it removes the burden of configuring all
>> machines on the network... Nothing is simpler than plug in the cable ,
>> run ifdown eth0; ifup eth0 (or ipconfig /renew on windows machines)...
>
> OK, thanks, Pedro, for your help. I've got it working now. I'm reading
> everything I can get my hands on about this LANs.
>
> Mark
>
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