On the other hand a couple of them newfangled router/accesspoint/firewall thingies does allow you to portforward to a machine based on it's dhcp-client name. Well at least mine does, but it's also got a setting letting me specify which clients should have receive an infinite lease from the dhcp-thing. So I don't know which of the two settings actually does the trick...

But I'd go down the static-ip for static (ie. non-laptop) machines any day, my self...
-- The revolution will not be televised.
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