[OpenWrt-Devel] Use DHCP by default on single port devices

[Daniel Engberg]

Hi Levente

Please have a look at the Github pull request.
It doesn't affect "routers" (depending how you have want to look at it I
guess) just devices with a single ethernet port and tries to make all
consistent and convenient.

Best regards,
Daniel

On 2018-08-27 16:54, Levente wrote:
> Can someone explain what is this all about? Why the default IP address
> is a problem? As far as I understand the router would use DHCP to get
> an IP address. Then a DHCP server is mandatory on the network?
> 
> Thanks,
> Levente
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 4:01 PM Alberto Bursi 
> <bobafetthotmail at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 8/27/2018 12:37 PM, Daniel Engberg wrote:
>> > As per request,
>> >
>> > Fine as long as we fix mdns in some way?
>> >
>> > https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/1062
>> >
>> > Not subscribed, so CC
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> > Daniel Engberg
>> >
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>> 
>> I agree with the proposal as phrased in the mailing list.
>> 
>> it's either mdns installed by default + dhcp so people can reach the
>> device by
>> 
>> writing "OpenWrt.local" or something in the browser or it has to stay
>> static IP.
>> 
>> Just going to DHCP without any other easy mean to reach the device 
>> will
>> only be annoying.
>> 
>> Devices with a single port and low flash can stay with static IP to 
>> save
>> space imho.
>> 
>> -Alberto
>> 
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