> configuring DHCP really is a huge pain Not sure why the author is so sniffy about DHCP. To me it seems easy to understand and configure. Having said that,

> configuring DHCP really is a huge pain Not sure why the author is so sniffy about DHCP. To me it seems easy to understand and configure. Having said that, I appreciate the author's remarks about DHCP being a 'fake' IP protocol, and in reality being an ethernet protocol; I hadn't seen it that way before, but it's a reasonable way to look at it.