From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 7 10:53:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA09198 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 10:53:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.webnology.com (mercury.webnology.com [209.155.51.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA09160 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 10:53:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jooji@webnology.com) Received: from localhost (jooji@localhost) by mercury.webnology.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA01298 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 13:00:16 -0500 (envelope-from jooji@webnology.com) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 13:00:16 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jasper O'Malley" To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting up ethernet interface In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Bryce Newall wrote: > You mean dynamic IP, right? Static IP and DHCP are contradictory. :) Not entirely. You can set up a DHCP server to provide particular fixed IP addresses to particular clients, based on the client-identifier or MAC address of the client's address request. The reason you'd do something like this is to give your workstations permanent IP addresses that can be changed from a central location. > You shouldn't need to know the address of the gateway; the DHCP client > will discover that automatically. Again, not necessarily. You probably *should* always send a default gateway to a DHCP client, but it all depends on the options set in the DHCP scope. It's moot anyways, though, since the previous poster will more likely than not be getting a default gateway assignment from the DHCP server on his school network. Cheers, Mick The Reverend Jasper P. O'Malley dotdot:jooji@webnology.com Systems Administrator ringring:asktheadmiral Webnology, LLC woowoo:http://www.webnology.com/~jooji To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message