On Jun 16, 2004, at 00:02, Dave wrote:
Let's say I wanted to be 192.168.1.170 for argument's sake. I turn
everything off (router + computers). Set my 'starting IP' to 170. Fire
the FreeBSD machine up first, let it get 170. Then I turn the dumb
winboxes on, and who cares what they have they arn't important. Like a
couple of days later, I'll type "ifconfig" and suddely I got 172 on my
FreeBSD box (192.168.1.172) instead of 170. I could turn DHCP off, but
then my dhclient takes really really really long to find the network (but
it does find it, eventually). How can I setup a more static system here
without the long wait for dhclient? Anything in dhclient.conf I can put
in there? I want to disable dhcp, but I need to figure out how to
efficiently get the connection going on, and basically, I havn't owned
FreeBSD in the pre-dhcp era, so I wouldn't know how.
Another poster replied with how to switch to static addressing. Note that to do that, you need to assign the static address OUTSIDE the range (scope) that your DHCP server (Linksys router) is offering to clients, or it will get stepped on.
The other way to accomplish what you want is to set up a DHCP lease reservation. You configure the DHCP server to associate a specific MAC address with a specific IP address in the scope. The server will then only assign that IP address to a DHCP request from the client with that specific MAC.
Either approach requires configuration of the DHCP server. My Linksys router supports both settings.
KeS
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