[Gllug] DHCP & DNS

[Xander D Harkness]

If you keep the same network card for your laptop you can assign
specific IP addresses to mac addresses.

You can get your mac address from ifconfig.  Check the manuals / readme
about the command for hardware assignment.

Cheers
Xander

On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 10:03, Jonathan Dye wrote:
> I would like to set up a range of DHCP addresses on my home network so that
> I can just plug my machine (and vistors) in and they'll get access without
> recnfiguring them.  
> The problem I have is with DNS.  I would like to be able to have my
> machines keep there hostnames with diffrent ip addresses. So if I plug my
> laptop in and it gets ip 10.0.0.5 then when I do 
> host laptop.mynetwork 
> I want to get 10.0.0.5
> I would like this to work for windows boxes as well as linux if possible.
> Is there a way to do this or am is it just wishful thinking?
> 
> JD
> 
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