The main reason I want static IP is sheer laziness! I am getting tired of searching for my NASs every time I want to do some admin on them in a browser. Potentially, at some point I may look at setting up FTP access over the internet too.
I'm so reliant on Bonjour now for local LAN discovery. Falkor.local gets to my NAS whatever IP it might have chosen. Though unfortunately the Airport router doesn't have the ability to do port mapping to a bonjour name, it still requires an IP. So for that same reason of internet accessibility, I have the router setting the IP of the NAS to a consistent address.
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