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Didn't knew about this one, let me add it to the poll. Learned a new one today. Thanks.

It's the feature that keeps me on openrc. Simple but powerful.

If i'm out and about with laptop or android phone, then NetworkManager for the laptop and normal dhcp for the android, but at home on the LAN all the devices have static ip addresses so i don't use anything because the ip is already pre set in the router (machine specific).

I've haven't tried setting it via the router (static). How do you set it for the lan devices, dhcp as well? (like PC = dhcp, but router = set static ip for pc?)

I guess it depends on the router, but mine is just a cheap(ish) tp-link Archer thing.

FWIW - one can do their own routing and set up dhcpd.

Quote from: clappingsnowdrop – on 21 August 2025, 14:15:29

I've haven't tried setting it via the router (static). How do you set it for the lan devices, dhcp as well? (like PC = dhcp, but router = set static ip for pc?)

I guess it depends on the router, but mine is just a cheap(ish) tp-link Archer thing. Go into the router settings and find the dhcp settings or network section. Look at the machines that are connected and find out which ones are which (sometimes they're named, and sometimes i just check the MAC address) and then just choose a range of local ip address numbers (for example, if you want 10 devices totally, you might use 192.168.1.25 to 192.168.1.35) and then set the ip address (as appropriate) for each machine. Refresh and that's it. The router will automatically assign the associated ip (within that address range that you have specified) every and any time you connect.  Effectively what you're doing is removing dhcp for the chosen device(s) and assigning static ip addresses. Everything else that is configured to use dhcp will do so.

I'll also add that it can be whatever local ip addresses you want. It doesn't have to be in a particular range of address (192.168.1.25-35 for instance) - i only do this to make it easier to manage and remember. You can organise it however you want to.
Also, on the Android devices, i set the MAC addresses to be static for the LAN, so whenever they connect on my home network the ip address is the same because the router will recognise the MAC address of each device?

With the PC's the MAC address remains the same anyway so whenever i reboot or connect, regardless of what OS i'm using, the IP address is always the same. It makes working with things overall a lot easier. Just remember to make a note of what ip addresses are associated with which device and that's about it. This all works the same whether it's ethernet or wifi.

the ip commands are really command line tools for manipulating networking.  If you use them for start up, you really need to put them in an init scricpt.  One should learn how to use them.

ADDITIONALLY, wifi access a whole 'nother beast.  you have iw commands that give you limited access, and it is quit clumsy.  At that point, it is useful to have nm tools around (not to be confused with nm that show symbols in binaries)

FWIW - one can do their own routing and set up dhcpd.

I use good old dhcpcd on a service combined (wpa_supplicant does the low level connection with wifi's ssid before dhcpcd requests the dhcp server for IP). 

I see, was a bit confused there. But basically router is set as the dhcp server. Simple and gets the job done.

Quote from: clappingsnowdrop – on 22 August 2025, 13:34:19

I see, was a bit confused there. But basically router is set as the dhcp server. Simple and gets the job done.

Is it simple? I guess it is but it's the only way i know of at the moment and so far (years) it's worked really well. I'm happy to find other (perhaps more extensible, adaptable & maybe a lot better) ways of doing the same thing though.  

It's more on some of the basics of networking than the command itself since the commands are simple (at least in the context of basic static IP configuration in your home).