Re: Forcing specific IP address with DHCP

2008-04-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:07:25PM -0400, Brian McKee wrote: > I'd do that, and add an additional name server or two (like OpenDNS, > or your ISP's competition's name server) to the list, on the off > chance they do get changed.I don't know your ISP, but mine has > used the same three I

Re: Forcing specific IP address with DHCP

2008-04-17 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:01:40 +1000 Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:31:27AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > Hi, > > > [snip] > > > > What would you do in this situation (besides getting a different router > > or using a general purpose computer as one)? > > does gwen

Re: Forcing specific IP address with DHCP

2008-04-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:31:27AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > Hi, > [snip] > > What would you do in this situation (besides getting a different router > or using a general purpose computer as one)? does gwen do proxy dns ? if so just point edith to gwen and gewn will update automatically I would

Re: Forcing specific IP address with DHCP

2008-04-17 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:12:22 -0400 Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:36:53 -0500 > Michael Shuler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 04/17/2008 09:31 AM, Celejar wrote: > > > I find myself in a bizarre networking predicament. I need to have > > > a server (henceforth '

Re: Forcing specific IP address with DHCP

2008-04-17 Thread Michael Shuler
On 04/17/2008 02:12 PM, Celejar wrote: On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:36:53 -0500 Michael Shuler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: dynamic DHCP client I don't quite follow you here. What's a dynamic DHCP client? bleh.. s/DHCP/DNS/ I meant dynamic DNS there.. -- Kind Regards, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Forcing specific IP address with DHCP

2008-04-17 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:36:53 -0500 Michael Shuler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 04/17/2008 09:31 AM, Celejar wrote: > > I find myself in a bizarre networking predicament. I need to have > > a server (henceforth 'edith') accept incoming connections (e.g. ssh) > > from the Internet. edith is beh

Re: Forcing specific IP address with DHCP

2008-04-17 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:07:25 -0400 Brian McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 17-Apr-08, at 10:31 AM, Celejar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I find myself in a bizarre networking predicament. > [...] > > > > I) Use static network configuration, rather than DHCP, for edith. > > The > > problem is t

Re: Forcing specific IP address with DHCP

2008-04-17 Thread Michael Shuler
On 04/17/2008 09:31 AM, Celejar wrote: I find myself in a bizarre networking predicament. I need to have a server (henceforth 'edith') accept incoming connections (e.g. ssh) from the Internet. edith is behind a home gateway / router / switch ( Trendware / Trendnet TEW-452BRP [0] - henceforth 'g

Re: Forcing specific IP address with DHCP

2008-04-17 Thread Brian McKee
On 17-Apr-08, at 10:31 AM, Celejar wrote: Hi, I find myself in a bizarre networking predicament. [...] I) Use static network configuration, rather than DHCP, for edith. The problem is that edith needs to get my ISP's nameservers from gwen, which normally occurs through DHCP. Several su

Re: Forcing specific IP address with DHCP

2008-04-17 Thread Chris Henry
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > II) Use dhclient's supersede facility to override gwen's DHCP offer. > After struggling with the various DHCP manpages, I can't figure out how > to supersede the IP address; all the examples deal with superseding > things s

Forcing specific IP address with DHCP

2008-04-17 Thread Celejar
Hi, I find myself in a bizarre networking predicament. I need to have a server (henceforth 'edith') accept incoming connections (e.g. ssh) from the Internet. edith is behind a home gateway / router / switch ( Trendware / Trendnet TEW-452BRP [0] - henceforth 'gwen'). gwen will forward specific p