Too cool, no problems with DNS? How does naming resolution work. If too much to explain no worry I'll RTFM. Bret Charles Galpin wrote: > > It was really quite easy. I have no idea why I didn't do it sooner. Well, > I know why. If you have a simple network with a few computers it is really > not needed. As soon as you have more thasn a handfull of machines or you > start trying to swap a PC between 2 or more networks, it becomes > essential! > > I think all I did was install the dhcpd package, and read the dhcpd.conf > man page. It comes with a sample dhcpd.conf file which really > helps. Really you just have to understand a few basic concepts - It's job > is to listen for requests, and assign an IP (from some range), as well as > all the other stuff you would normally configure yourself like the domain > name, gateway, netmask etc. And all you do is describe these things in > dhcp.conf. Like everything else you can get pretty fancy if you want, but > you don't have to. > > On the client side the setup is as simple as setting the "get my IP > dynamically" checkbox. > > <OT> > In windows you can run 'winipcfg' to release and renew the lease at will > for testing so you don't have to keep rebooting :) It's also very handy if > you want to switch a running machine between two networks like I have been > doing lately - release the lease, unplug from one hub, plug into other, > renew lease - wallah - completely configured on other (dhcp based network) > > hth > charles > > On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Bret Hughes wrote: > > > > I alway thought that I would get around to setting up DHCP to protect > > myself from other people but now I am ready to set it up to protect me > > from myself :) > > > > Anyway, what are the docs you found most helpful? > > Charles Galpin wrote: > > > > > > Hi All > > > > > > I recently started using dhcp. It's great. > > -- > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" > as the Subject.
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