[Klug-general] newbie networking questions

[James Morris]

On 8 October 2010 13:14, James Morris <jwm.art.net at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 October 2010 12:37, David Halliday <david.halliday at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Most routers allow you to assign an IP to a MAC address.
>> So everything on the laptop/desktop level works the same (over DHCP) but you
>> tell the router which IP to give to each device.
>> Either that or you can set up your own internal DNS server.
>
> Thanks. I didn't realize a MAC address was assigned by the hardware
> manufacturer of the network card. I've done that.
>

I'm still curious about the internal DNS server idea. Can you give a
loose outline of how that would work?

Are there not simpler solutions than running DNS servers for a 2 machine LAN?

James.