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

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

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 print

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 machi

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>

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 us

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

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

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 etherne

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 m

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 v

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 d

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 sti