[Gllug] DHCP & DNS

Jonathan Dye jonathan.dye at automationpartnership.com
Thu Dec 6 09:26:18 UTC 2001


At 11:15 06/12/01 +0100, you wrote:
>If you keep the same network card for your laptop you can assign
>specific IP addresses to mac addresses.

Is there a way to do it without mac addresses being used?  I thought of
this as a solution but what I'd really like is if the machines knew the
names they wanted and told the DHCP server which then told the DNS server.
I've probably got a fundamental misunderstanding of DHCP there though!

JD

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