But more questions. We have a router with dsl modem here. I use dhcp for windows clients. I gave each linux machine a static ip so I can do remote admin. Is there a way to get the ip address of nameservers from the router, like what would happen with dhcp, but still have static addresses for the linux machines?Frank,
Frank
What I usualy do is have the DHCP server give the Linux boxes a fixed IP address based on the MAC address of the NIC. That way, you can use DHCP on the all the machines on the network, but still have a statis IP for the Linux machines. Most routers I have seen will alow you to set up static IPs as well having a dynamic IP range for other machines.
I usualy cheat in getting the MAC address for the machine by using normal DHCP setting for the first boot, and looking at the tables on the router to get the MAC address, and the using cut and past to put it in the static IP table. You can also use ifconfig to get/set the MAC address.
The only time you have to change things is if you change the NIC in one of the Linux machines.
Mikkel
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