Re: tlug: NFS question

[Jim Tittsler <jwt-tlug@example.com>]

>FB> So I'm keen on static assignment, because I want to be able to
>FB> pin down the exact location of any IP addresses that start
>FB> misbehaving themselves.  I understand that MS products only speak
>FB> DHCP (? not confident I've got this right).  That's important,

I think so.

>RW> I'm pretty sure dhcpd can be configured to give a specific IP to a
>RW> specific MAC address, but I've never done it.  I have done it with BOOTP
>RW> (which DHCP was based on).

Yes, one stanza of my dhcpd.conf file looks like:
    host windup {
        hardware ethernet 00:10:57:00:26:4F;
        fixed-address windup.dskk.co.jp;
    }
which makes sure the NetWinder always ends up with the same IP address.
(For much the same reason that Frank mentioned... I wanted to make it
trivial to figure out if the new kid on the network was causing trouble.)

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Jim Tittsler, Tokyo   ICQ: 5981586


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