A. Dumas wrote:

While everything else you say is correct, this is not:

> 3a. You can fix the IP address on the client (e.g. in the hosts
> file).

The hosts file is merely a translation table and assigns a hostname to a
given IP address. It does NOT set the IP address.

The IP address may be set in e.g. /etc/network/interfaces

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