John Hasler wrote:
Rob Brenart writes:
To the first point, I'm already running a DHCP server with no
reservations...
Then you do not have it configured correctly. Tell us what server you are
using and how it is configured.
...when the laptops come and go I have no promise they'll come back with
the same IP.
It is the job of the dhcp server to assign them IP numbers.
But that doesn't guarantee that a given named machine will get the same
IP each time which is what the OP wanted. On my fairly simple setup
(DSL 4-port router) I use your first suggestion of putting the 4 machine
names into each /etc/hosts. Either the leases work out right or the
router always assigns the same IP to the same RJ45 jack.
Paul Scott
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