martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.07.03.2319 +0200]: >> I have in the past had a server on a local area network where the >> network administrators refused to assign a static IP address. But >> they would set things up to promise to always give me the same IP >> address every time by DHCP and not assign that address to anyone >> else. But they wanted me to promise not to configure it as >> a static address on my server, because if something should go >> wrong, it was important that I be a good Net Citizen and not use >> an address which might have been (accidentally) given to >> a different computer on the network. > > In such a situation, I have set up fake DHCP clients, verified the > result, and email me when things changed. And behind that, a static > entry in /e/n/i. :)
And anyway, even a real dhcp client will do, and there's no need for laptop-net or any other automatic network chooser. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
