[Gllug] DHCP weirdness

Simon Stewart sms at lateral.net
Mon Sep 24 09:35:26 UTC 2001


On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 08:59:29PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote:
>
> I had the exact same problem while bringing my laptop in to the library
> in uni. I ended up shutting down one of the machines, labeling it "out
> of order" so that people would not turn it on, and using it's ip. I had
> to do a fair bit of trial and error to get everything right (subnet /
> broadcast and the like) though I guess this is not a problem for you. 

Why not just pick all the config that the NT box was using via the
ipconfig command? Just curious --- I know that some places lock the
system down quite severely.

Cheers,

Simon

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