I want to throw DHCP in because in practice, you need it to connect to random IPv4 networks. Besides, the counterpoint is even tougher. Should we expect beginn

I want to throw DHCP in because in practice, you need it to connect to random IPv4 networks. Besides, the counterpoint is even tougher. Should we expect beginners to configure static addresses when actually configuring their networks? Getting bogged down in the details of broadcast addresses, subnet masks and gateway addresses can be a bit unsettling for a total beginner. It's second nature to seasoned hackers, so we discount how foreign it was when we first learned it.