On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 10:48:56AM -0500, Andrew Miskell via Dnsmasq-discuss wrote: > On Jun 27, 2021, at 09:30, Carl Karsten <c...@nextdayvideo.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 7:56 AM john doe <johndoe65...@mail.com> wrote: > >> On 6/27/2021 9:17 AM, Carl Karsten wrote: > >> > On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 2:10 AM john doe <johndoe65...@mail.com> wrote: > >> >> On 6/27/2021 7:03 AM, Dominik wrote: > >> >>> On Sat, 2021-06-26 at 19:16 -0500, Carl Karsten wrote: > >> >>>> I'm looking for advice on haveing some boxes to have both dynamic and > >> >>>> static IPs. > >> >>> > >> >>> Why use a static IP at all? We have often enough seen people use static > >> >>> addresses for the wrong reasons. > >> >>> > >> >> > >> >> As I understand it, the OP wants to use DHCP static leases. > >> >> > >> > > >> > No. > >> > > >> > I need this for when move put a box on someone else's network. > >> > So I don't have any control over the dhcp server. > >> > > >> > >> Then set an fix IP on dhcp client (dhclient ...) and remove it when you > >> don't need it. > >> > >> Basically, you set the dhcp client to have a static address or let the > >> client get a lease from a dhcp server. > > > > I'm trying to reduce the amount of work I need to do when I show up > > and discover there is no dhcp server. > > > > Example locations: university, coffee shop, convention center, > > office meeting room. In all cases I am a guest for a few days. > > > > > >> > >> Why do you need dnsmasq into the mix? > > > > I don't - I am just working on client config. > > > > A couple things. It might help to state what the client device is > running (Windows, Linux and what distribution/version). > > dnsmasq is a DNS/DHCP server not a client, > so I’m unsure what the role of dnsmasq would be here.
Dnsmasq has a mailinglist. Behind a mailinglist are people. People have knowledge and experience. People do tend to exchange knowledge and experience. Possible exchange place is a mailinglist. > Most of the places you listed would already have a DHCP server available > to hand out IP addresses (and associated network information) on its > own. Otherwise, there’s no easy way to connect to the internet without > knowing all that particular networks details (e.g. gateway address, > subnet mask, etc, etc) which defeats the point of providing network > access in a number of the locations you listed. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss
