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This article was written a long time ago. It should be improved to match the tone of the rest of the website. Update this article with recent work done on secondary IP. |
Traditionally most enterprise environments used static IP. This is changing somewhat due to virtualization and the concept of stateless applications. But it's not quite there yet.
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For your home server environment you might want to use Bonjour instead and just go by hostname. |
Assuming your existing install is picking up DHCP correctly and your network is working fine. If you are learning using virtual machine softare like VMWare, ensure your guest OS network is set to use Bridged Networking. This will not work with sharing the network.
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