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<blockquote data-quote="Wil" data-source="post: 100032" data-attributes="member: 3502">Will DHCP really help to keep someone out, though?&nbsp; The default lease on WinXP is (I believe) 8 days, which gives them plenty of time to sniff out your IP address (heck, even the 72 hours for WinNT is more than enough time for someone who's dedicated).&nbsp; Unless I'm on crack and I've misunderstood something fundamental about DHCP all this time.&nbsp; If I'm right, you'd still need a firewall at least.Unless (little gears whirring here) you're using DHCP as a proxy server.&nbsp; THAT will help out quite a bit...but the firewall is probably a good recommendation anyway.I KNEW getting that Network+ certification would be worth something...now I just need someone to give me a job so I can practice my knowledge <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wil, post: 100032, member: 3502"] Will DHCP really help to keep someone out, though? The default lease on WinXP is (I believe) 8 days, which gives them plenty of time to sniff out your IP address (heck, even the 72 hours for WinNT is more than enough time for someone who's dedicated). Unless I'm on crack and I've misunderstood something fundamental about DHCP all this time. If I'm right, you'd still need a firewall at least. Unless (little gears whirring here) you're using DHCP as a proxy server. THAT will help out quite a bit...but the firewall is probably a good recommendation anyway. I KNEW getting that Network+ certification would be worth something...now I just need someone to give me a job so I can practice my knowledge :) [/QUOTE]

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