Re: DHCP with Static Addresses

2005-11-29 Thread Joseph H. Fry
On Thursday 24 November 2005 1:29 pm, Kenneth Jacker wrote: [ sarge ] Looking in interfaces(5), it doesn't appear that I can include an address line (where I could specify a desired address) within /etc/network/interfaces for a 'dhcp'-configured interface. However, what I'd like to do

Re: DHCP with Static Addresses

2005-11-27 Thread Jim McCloskey
| o printing to one of the machines running CUPS ... again, I must | specify the addr of the print server machine This was why I wanted to assign a fixed address to my desktop machine at home--- it has a printer on the parallel port and it serves as printserver for all of the other

Re: DHCP with Static Addresses

2005-11-27 Thread H.S.
Jim McCloskey wrote: | o printing to one of the machines running CUPS ... again, I must | specify the addr of the print server machine This was why I wanted to assign a fixed address to my desktop machine at home--- it has a printer on the parallel port and it serves as printserver

Re: Re: DHCP with Static Addresses

2005-11-27 Thread Jim McCloskey
H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | and the DHCP server in the Linksys router (a Wireless-B) is happy | to always assign the 192.168.1.100 address to the machine in | question. | | No, DHCP is doing nothing in this. You have given your machine a fixed | IP address in your LAN and it works

Re: DHCP with Static Addresses

2005-11-26 Thread Winston Smith
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 12:02:47PM -0500, Kenneth Jacker wrote: am server. Assuming you're using dhcpd you'll want something am similar to this in your dhcpd.conf: am host yourhostname { am hardware ethernet 00:11:22:AA:BB:CC; am fixed-address 192.168.0.123; am } Good

Re: DHCP with Static Addresses

2005-11-25 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Kenneth Jacker wrote: However, what I'd like to do somehow is make my RFC1819 addresses remain the same at home The big question is: why do you actually care for the address? There are only rare cases where this is actually needed for a client. HS -- Mein GPG-Key ist auf meiner Homepage

Re: DHCP with Static Addresses

2005-11-25 Thread Kenneth Jacker
However, what I'd like to do somehow is make my RFC1819 addresses remain the same at home hs The big question is: why do you actually care for the address? hs There are only rare cases where this is actually needed for a client. Two needs come to mind: o ssh-ing to one of the

Re: DHCP with Static Addresses

2005-11-25 Thread Kenneth Jacker
am If you're using DHCP and you want to have static IPs for your am devices what you need to do is assign a static lease on the DHCP am server. Assuming you're using dhcpd you'll want something am similar to this in your dhcpd.conf: am host yourhostname { am hardware ethernet

Re: DHCP with Static Addresses

2005-11-25 Thread Maxim Vexler
On 11/25/05, Kenneth Jacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: am If you're using DHCP and you want to have static IPs for your am devices what you need to do is assign a static lease on the DHCP am server. Assuming you're using dhcpd you'll want something am similar to this in your dhcpd.conf:

Re: DHCP with Static Addresses

2005-11-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 11:58 -0500, Kenneth Jacker wrote: However, what I'd like to do somehow is make my RFC1819 addresses remain the same at home hs The big question is: why do you actually care for the address? hs There are only rare cases where this is actually needed for a

Re: DHCP with Static Addresses

2005-11-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 20:14 +0200, Maxim Vexler wrote: On 11/25/05, Kenneth Jacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: am If you're using DHCP and you want to have static IPs for your am devices what you need to do is assign a static lease on the DHCP am server. Assuming you're using dhcpd

DHCP with Static Addresses

2005-11-24 Thread Kenneth Jacker
[ sarge ] Looking in interfaces(5), it doesn't appear that I can include an address line (where I could specify a desired address) within /etc/network/interfaces for a 'dhcp'-configured interface. However, what I'd like to do somehow is make my RFC1819 addresses remain the same at home, but

Re: DHCP with Static Addresses

2005-11-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 13:29 -0500, Kenneth Jacker wrote: [ sarge ] Looking in interfaces(5), it doesn't appear that I can include an address line (where I could specify a desired address) within /etc/network/interfaces for a 'dhcp'-configured interface. However, what I'd like to do