Re: Domain question

[Paul Scott <paslist@ultrasw.com>]

Dick Davies wrote:

> * Paul Scott <paslist@ultrasw.com> [0745 18:45]:
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> > > It is the job of the dhcp server to assign them IP numbers.
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> > But that doesn't guarantee that a given named machine will get the same IP each time which is what the OP 
> > wanted.  
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> Why don't you just map MAC addresses to IPs? isc-dhcpd can certainly do that.
>  
1.  Because it's been easy this way so far.  I had looked into some kind 
of NIS or LDAP setup when I set it up.  I had not heard of isc-dhcp 
until you mentioned it.

2.  It doesn't look like my DSL router can do LAN MAC address mapping.

Paul


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