dhcp. Boring, simple, and insufficient for professional work imo. Not a problem for a largely static home network At work "the ricoh guy" manages the printers.

dhcp. Boring, simple, and insufficient for professional work imo. Not a problem for a largely static home network At work "the ricoh guy" manages the printers. You can access them by name (wins) or ip. I think that's a good enough solution, but it focuses all the static ip work to one small team (possibly 1 person) and to everyone else it's some characters you effectively copy paste once per laptop refresh. No networking knowledge necessary To be clear, it's not that I think these skills lack value or practical application in lots of professional settings, it's that I think their relative position to other things has gone down