Re: laptop,dhcp,fixed addresses
On Thursday 14 April 2005 22:20, s. keeling wrote:
> Incoming from Alan Chandler:
> > On Thursday 14 April 2005 16:01, Matt Price wrote:
> > > do you have a trick that somehow avoids such manipulation?
> >
> > is the case here that you are trying to solve? Are you on a network with
> > no dhcp server?
>
> IIUC, he wants to understand how you ensure you get the same IP
> address from DHCP everytime. Is your server set up to hand out the
> same IP everytime when it sees your MAC address?
Yes it is, see further up the thread where I post the dhcpd.conf file. It has
got some lines of the form
fixed-address xxx.home
which causes the dhcp server to look up xxx.home (using the bind stuff I also
posted) and allocate that ip address.
>
> If that's incorrect, sorry for butting in. Carry on.
Feel free, the more the merrier:-)
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Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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