On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 2:25 AM, Steve Platt <steve.platt@ntlworld.com> wrote:

If address space is scarce, allocate it dynamically. That's what DHCP is for.

Another use case for DHCP is mobile operation. As a station moves from gateway to gateway DHCP (with Dynamic DNS) makes routing much simpler.

Also remember, not all Net-44 traffic will be travelling via AX.25. For example D-STAR DD sends encapsulated Ethernet packets over the air interface so DHCP works quite simply. (At least using ircDDBGateway implementation.)

John D. Hays
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