Dear Pd-Listers,<br><br>Sorry this obviously OT question.<br><br>I'm trying to use my Raspberry Pi (yes I know, i'm also beginning to get fed up with its apparent ubiquity...) as by portable webserver. By portable I mean that i could carry it with me and plug it into any home router and make it accessible to every machine in the local network. <br>
<br>The obvious problem i'm currently faced with is that of the IP given by the router to the RPi. I think it's possible to configure the RPi to have a static IP, but I have no idea how "portable" this solution is. Say, if I configured my RPi to alsways show up as 192.168.0.255, would this address work with every home router?<br>
Another option, perhaps : use the unique MAC address of my RPi ? I have no clue whether it is possible at all to connect to a local webserver using the MAC of its host.<br><br>Any clue is more than welcome, i know practically nothing about networks.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br><br>Pierre.<br><br>