On a sunny day (Sat, 23 Jun 2018 11:10:32 +0200) it happened "A. Dumas"
 wrote in
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>free DHCP range for devices that don't need a fixed address, e.g. your
>phone. All the modem/routers I used in the last 10(?) years could do
>this. That way you are guaranteed of:
>- no conflicts
>- a one-time setup
>- a central administration
>Now you only have to know the device's name. And yeah, your first
>argument probably stands, for you.

hehe
yes, may be a matter of taste? (automatic gear versus manual gear sort of
thing?).
As things get more complicated here, 2 fully loaded 8 port switches,
not via the cable modem / router,
power over ethernet for some sensors,
and I have an electronics background, numbers.. need to know :-)
Wrote the UDP stacks too in asm for the sensors, on my site too.
WiFi was hacked some years ago, so that is now normally off,
cable modem has a phone connector no need for WiFi,
do not like smartphones anyway,
have a normal ancient Nokia (cannot be hacked other than with an axe)
but the MAC filtering should make it safer now.
There are ethernet connectors where I would use laptops.
And then there are a few RTL_SDR sticks in use for radio like things, ham
radio,
AIS, airplane traffic, wireless sensor receive and forwarding via UDP..
It is not the normal pie on a router situation...
For those, sure, but even then as soon as you really want to do something
with the Pie you will want a fixed IP address, in my experience that is.
Maybe I am the F1 driver type ;-)

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