Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 20:45:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jonathan Fosburgh <jef53313@Bayou.UH.EDU> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EtherExpress 16 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970919204347.280L-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.970918123134.11117B-100000@Bayou.UH.EDU>
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On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Jonathan Fosburgh wrote: > > ``dynamic'' in what sense? Does your network use DHCP, BOOTP or what? > > > > Have you considered applying to your network admin to have a static > > address for your computer? We have spare space in our subnets here at the > > UO to allocate some static addresses. The rest are done by DHCP. > > > I talked to one of the sysadmins here and he said that the IP is assigned > everytime the computer tries to connect to the net. There is no way to get > a static address at least that he knew of. I will be talking to someone > else about this later so hopefully I can get some good news in that > respect, but the guy I talked to said he thinks it is using DHCP. Well, I would think that they have network equipment that depends on a static IP (like a router interface) and left some extra space for expansion. The DHCP server doesn't have to know about these statics. You just pick one and get a nameserver entry added that points to that IP. Saves a lot of headaches. :) If they don't want to budge that way, and based on what you say I assume you're on DHCP, then look into the wide-dhcp port (in ports/net). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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