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Date:      08 May 2001 16:16:33 +0100
From:      Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk>
To:        nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Laptop on 2 networks - solutions ?
Message-ID:  <m1pudjeur2.fsf@zaphod.realtime.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <15096.3236.7533.76119@nomad.yogotech.com>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105080851150.5323-100000@underground.cs.unm.edu> <m11ypzga3c.fsf@zaphod.realtime.co.uk> <15096.3236.7533.76119@nomad.yogotech.com>

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Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> writes:

> You do know that you can setup DHCP to always give you a fixed address,
> don't you?
> 
> host Nomad {
>         hardware ethernet 00:60:97:94:8f:d3;
>         fixed-address nomad.yogotech.com;
> }
> 
> So, my laptop *always* gets the same address everytime.
>
> > Also, I don't run any DHCP services at home. Too damn lazy.
> 
> Spend a little time setting it up, and then you can save time by not
> having to reconfigure your box when you move to the different
> environments.

I can do DHCP at home, and get it to give me a fixed address, but I
can't really control that at work... So still not really an
option. Unless I setup a box to just serve DHCP for 1 IP address with
my hardware address... ? 

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- Wayne Pascoe 
E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk
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