[PLUG] Ubuntu Networking

Darren Couch dcouch at gmail.com
Wed Nov 24 21:39:40 UTC 2010


Do you have the dns set up in /etc/hosts? (I think that's the guy they go in)

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On Nov 24, 2010, at 13:28, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Bill Barry wrote:
> 
>> It's your time, but DHCP was invented to take care of all of this for you.
>> If you then still want static IP addresses you can tell the router which
>> MAC addresses to assign which IP addresses and all is done.
> 
> Bill,
> 
>   I've 4 hosts on the network and static IPs have worked well for us. I
> don't understand how DHCP will fix this current issue. Using the static IP
> addresses the laptop can see all the internal hosts, including the gateway
> router. If the wireless AP dhcp server assigns the same static IP address to
> the laptop how does that allow it to get outside when it now cannot?
> 
> Rich
> 
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