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Honestly, I think the push for everyone to use static IPs on small office networks is overkill.
Last week in a Denver shop, I watched a junior tech spend 3 hours manually assigning addresses to 15 devices that would have been fine on DHCP. Has anyone else seen this happen, or is it just me?
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fiona_murphy6d ago
My buddy's office did that for all their workstations and it was a mess. They had constant IP conflicts because the spreadsheet got outdated. Now they only use static for the actual server and let DHCP handle everything else.
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the_terry6d ago
That "3 hours manually assigning addresses" part is the real cost people forget. It's not just the time, it's the human error risk. Now someone has to keep a perfect spreadsheet forever or the next tech is lost. Static makes sense for servers, but for a printer? You're just building a future headache.
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