[PLUG] Dumbass network question

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Mon Jan 19 23:46:15 UTC 2009


>>>>> "John" == John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> writes:

John> 1) Every time I mount the desktop partition on the laptop I must
John> first figure out what the desktop address has become. For
John> example, the last time I did this its address was
John> 192.168.0.126. Today it is 192.168.0.148. It is easy enough to
John> use the GUI on the desktop to figure it out (System >
John> Adminsitration > Network Tools, then click on the ethernet
John> device in the dropdown). But I shouldn't have to do this.  Is
John> there a way to make things stay the same?

Two choices:

 a) static network configuration of your client devices rather than
    using dhcp; or 

 b) configuring your dhcp server to always hand out the same ip addrs
    by mac address.


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