John Hasler wrote:
But that doesn't guarantee that a given named machine will get the same IP each time which is what the OP wanted. On my fairly simple setup (DSL 4-port router) I use your first suggestion of putting the 4 machine names into each /etc/hosts. Either the leases work out right or the router always assigns the same IP to the same RJ45 jack.Rob Brenart writes:To the first point, I'm already running a DHCP server with no reservations...Then you do not have it configured correctly. Tell us what server you are using and how it is configured....when the laptops come and go I have no promise they'll come back with the same IP.It is the job of the dhcp server to assign them IP numbers.
Paul Scott