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[–] UmbraTemporis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 78 points 7 months ago (3 children)
  • Easier to setup
  • More control
  • Easier to maintain
  • Dirt cheap
  • Low power
  • Space efficient
  • Zero downtme

Need I go on? This is clearly the future. Friendship ENDED with Network Hardware now PEG is my best friend.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 25 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I want to criticize this but I have multiple production environments with no DHCP and the process for provisioning new servers is basically "Guess an ipv4 address and if you pick one that's already in use the build will fail and you can guess again."

This is arguably better which is a little embarrassing.

[–] ms264556@beehaw.org 8 points 7 months ago

Totally OK way of doing it. You basically manually implemented the protocol APIPA uses to allocate 169.254 addresses.

[–] exu@feditown.com 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Have you never just run an nmap of the whole network and made a list of ip addresses that are occupied?

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 4 points 7 months ago

You could, but that information gets stale pretty quickly and is tricky to do with the ACLs.

ah yes the good old "gonna use manual addressing because lmao" and then the good old "man i wonder which IP sets i have used already"

my beloved.

[–] Kissaki@beehaw.org 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Zero downtme

If the paper falls down it's literal downtime though!

[–] UmbraTemporis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 7 months ago

But the server is still operational, it's just moved.

  • Resilient
  • Durable
  • Secure
[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

My only argument is in the idea of finding which device has a particular IP address.

Guess you're running laps around the campus staring at pegs for a while to figure out which one it is.