From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 29 17:30:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F44316A4CE for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:30:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24A6943FB1 for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:30:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from akruijff@www.kruijff.org) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HP5003265IF9B@smtp01.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 02:30:19 +0100 (MET) Received: from Alex.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kruij557.speed.planet.nl (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAU1UVcP014595; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 02:30:31 +0100 (CET envelope-from akruijff@Alex.lan) Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by Alex.lan (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id hAU1UUhh014594; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 02:30:30 +0100 (CET envelope-from akruijff) Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 02:30:30 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <200311291507.27409.brett-brown@earthlink.net> To: "Brett L. Brown" Message-id: <20031130013030.GD8823@dds.nl> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i References: <200311291507.27409.brett-brown@earthlink.net> cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: loosing wireless connection... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 01:30:25 -0000 On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 03:07:27PM +0000, Brett L. Brown wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on a Dell Latitude c600. The laptop is > continuously powered on. When I close my laptop I lose my dhcp lease. I would > prefer the behavior of not ever loosing my dhcp lease when I close my screen. > If I can't have this what is a quick way to request another lease without > having to loose my login session or rebooting. Currently I have to leave my > screen open or if my wife closes it for me I have to reboot. :( > > brett That depend what you using for a DHCP server. If you use isc-dhcpd then you can configure it to bind an IP to your MAC address. I can't give you an example. I think one exist in in the manual. You could also just use a static IP as an alternitive. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/