[TriLUG] enabling SSH into private network

[Lance A. Brown]

Jason Watts said the following on 1/2/2008 10:28 AM:
> If your POS systesm are getting their IP's via DHCP,  setting up port
> forwarding will eventually blow up on you.  If the systems come up in a
> different order their IP's will possibly be switched around.

Not if you configure your DHCP server to provide fixed IP addresses to
each machine, based on the MAC address of the client machine.

That way, you get the benefits of using DHCP and still maintain stable
IP address assignments.

--[Lance]

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