Curiousity about setting up home network

Hypothetically, if one is setting up a home network, and the router or hub
does not provide DHCP or DNS services, can a network still function, or are
these services required? What are the drawbacks if they are not present?

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"Anonymous" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

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You don't expect US to do YOUR homework, don't you?



Gee, don't they teach the kids nowadays how to use the net?

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On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 18:03:57 -0500, Anonymous <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
| Hypothetically, if one is setting up a home network, and the router or hub
| does not provide DHCP or DNS services, can a network still function, or are
| these services required? What are the drawbacks if they are not present?


Well, you can always hard code the IP address in the settings for each
computer, and use /etc/hosts instead of DNS. This still works, just like
it did before DNS & DHCP were deeveloped.

Oh, if their is an Internat connection, then you will need a default
route on the computers as well.


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On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 18:03:57 -0500, Anonymous wrote:
> Hypothetically, if one is setting up a home network, and the router or hub
> does not provide DHCP or DNS services, can a network still function,

Yes

> or are these services required?

Depends on what you are doing with the netework and want you want to access.

> What are the drawbacks if they are not present?

You use ip addresses instead of names for everything.

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"Anonymous" <(E-Mail Removed)> spake unto us, saying:

>Hypothetically, if one is setting up a home network, and the router or
>hub does not provide DHCP or DNS services, can a network still function,
>or are these services required?

Those services are not required. Just assign IP addresses from the
list of non-forwarded addressed (192.168.*.* being one of them), and
go from there. I've done that here for years.

This is a bit of a FAQ, BTW. Learn to use Google. :-)

>What are the drawbacks if they are not present?

The only one I can see is a lack of flexibility when adding/removing
boxes from the LAN. You actually have to manually choose different IP
addresses for each box. Other than that, it works fine.

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Anonymous wrote:

> Hypothetically, if one is setting up a home network, and the router or hub
> does not provide DHCP or DNS services, can a network still function, or
> are these services required? What are the drawbacks if they are not
> present?
>

Why do I get the feeling this is another homework question?

"Anonymous" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

> Hypothetically, if one is setting up a home network, and the router or hub
> does not provide DHCP or DNS services, can a network still function, or are
> these services required? What are the drawbacks if they are not present?

The router or hub does not have to provide them. Any host on the
network can provide DHCP and/or DNS. DHCP is not needed, but you will
need access to a DNS server, either on your own network or externally,
in order to access most internet services.