I need to figure out how static ip addresses work on Linux.
I was always under the assumption that only ISPs were the only one who could issue static ips but I guess with Linux there’s way to circumvent that.
I must read more into the matter.
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Read up on DHCP for address allocation, and subnets to understand why you can set your own IP address and still talk to others (when you know what you're doing)
I'm going to be referencing the articles linked in Bitcart's , & BTCPay Server's Documentation.
I didn't even know that was a possibility until very recently.
But I was fiddling with similar stuff recently so that's why I'm going to take another crack at it.
It's not about being able to bypass it on Linux. You can imagine it would be pretty hellish if any client on any subnet could just take over any amount of IPs from other computers.
In your average unprotected LAN this will work, but not with any ISP that knows what they're doing.
It is possible to arrange things such that you can only get an address via DHCP, or even skip DHCP but ensure nevertheless that s certain MAC address can only be associated with a specific IP.
Meaning, you can statically assign the IP all you want on the WAN side, any sensible ISP network configuration will drop your packets then.
