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I have to configure some machines that will be attached to some network of unknown properties. Maybe some Ethernet, some wireless. What configuration will provide the best propability it will work out the box?
Some ideas:
- Preconfigured static V4 / V6 IPs, with the hope they don't interfere anything and no need to hop sub networks
- DHCP and zeroconf/Avahi. May hop subnetworks or not depending how they are bridged. Fails if DHCP server gets unavailable for any machine.
- Windows Naming Service. Maybe more often supported to hop bridged subnetworks. Akwardly unreliable in my daily experience, why?
when you say Windows Naming Service, do you mean WINS? WINS is only for NETBios/SMB traffic, and was an option for making SMB work across subnets before NetBios over TCP was available. now a days its not necessary, but your right, it never worked reliably. either way though, it will not help with address allocation, and still relies on either a dhcp or static IP address that matches the network its jacked into. Why would you expect the DHCP server to become unavailable? – Frank Thomas – 2013-03-14T11:43:45.463