peaceatwork
Programmer
- Sep 19, 2012
- 5
I have a program that sends pre-configured messages from one station to others through tcp/ip ports.
Currently, the receivers are identified through ip address.
However, due to DHCP, we need to keep recalculating the receiver lists after each receiver gets a new IP address.
Question-
Can we identify the receiver through their MAC address or Machine name instead?
Are those identifiers unique and static?
any issues? why would the original programmers use IP addresses to address a message when we had to keep updating it because of DHCP?
thanks.
Currently, the receivers are identified through ip address.
However, due to DHCP, we need to keep recalculating the receiver lists after each receiver gets a new IP address.
Question-
Can we identify the receiver through their MAC address or Machine name instead?
Are those identifiers unique and static?
any issues? why would the original programmers use IP addresses to address a message when we had to keep updating it because of DHCP?
thanks.