What I would recomend doing is writting down a list of all the mac addresses, then setting up the dhcp server to hand them out ip/hostname/dns/route based on the mac address, that way each host has just to request dhcp, and the server does the rest for them.
Shane Clements a �crit: >>>If you want to manually setup each >>>computers ip address (why?) you can still use dhcp, but setup your >>>dhcp.conf file to only request dns from the dhcp server. >>> >>> > > > >>>Just curious why you aren't using DHCP though? >>> >>> > >Well the short answer is 'cause I'm not sure what I'm doing...:^) > >Actually (perhaps I'm not going about it the right way...) I want to eventually >run a DNS server and Apache to host my own site. I have a site hosted by >l33t.ca. But to learn more I thought I'd try it my own self. > >What I thought might work was to have the SMC box port forward requests >from 'mysite.com' to one of the boxes behind it. > >I thought that for stuff like that (ftp, http, openshell etc...) there would >have to be fixed addresses at each machine. > >Perhaps no... > >Shane > > > >
