> I don't understand why getting rid of DHCP is desirable. It's less infrastructure to run, especially with embedded networks. > DHCP provides a nice central

> I don't understand why getting rid of DHCP is desirable. It's less infrastructure to run, especially with embedded networks. > DHCP provides a nice central place where you can map MAC addresses to IP addresses instead of configuring it ad-hoc on every device which needs a static IP address (if you're lucky and the device even supports static IP!). You are limiting your thinking to macro-scale 'user-managed' devices, as opposed to things like embedded things: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_(standard) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_(standard)