Re: changing DHCP server used to assign IP address to laptop

[Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@wanadoo.fr>]

Hello Tom,

if your aim is to assign some kind of permanent internat address to your laptop,
you may to consider to use a dynamical IP:
see, for instance, the ddclient package.

hth,
Jerome

David Goodenough wrote:
> On Thursday 24 March 2005 14:12, Tom Weller at Ambassador Computers wrote:
>
> > How do I direct my laptop to a particular static IP address for obtaining
> > DHCP leases? I set up the laptop at home, which has a direct ISP connection
> > (cable modem), but when I bring the laptop to the office I need to get an
> > IP address from a router, not directly from the ISP provider.
> >
> > Tom
>
> You don't.  The DHCP client sends out a broadcast and it will be picked up by
> any DHCP server on the local net.  The client will generally use whatever it
> gets given by the first such server to respond.
>
> David