[hpsdr] Static IP vs DHCP

[Jim Sanford]

All:

Finally beginning to tentatively get in to bringing one of my HPSDR 
units to life and reading the startup in the various manuals.

For my remotely controlled Icom 706, I assigned static IP addresses to 
the shack unit and the remoted radio, as well as the WebSwitch which 
controls power and antenna selection.  I did this, because I've been 
burned in the past with power failures, or whatever, resulting in all 
different IP addresses, and did not want to deal with this on hardware I 
really care about accessing.

For the same reasons, I'm considering assigning static IP addresses to 
each of the Metis boards in the 2 units I have.

Question:  Is there any down side to static IP addresses?

If it matters, I don't see any time soon trying to access any of this 
stuff from outside of my router.  Latency and bandwidth limits on my 
satellite internet as well as the obvious security concerns tell me I 
don't really want to be in that business.

Thanks & 73,
Jim
wb4gcs at amsat.org


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