I too run a mix of dynamic and static IP's (servers are static so the firewall can map ports to them easily, NAS devices so they are always in the same place, etc). I have found the networking "tools" Ubuntu provides to be, well, worthless. I always manually edit the files. /etc/network/interfaces, /etc/resolv.conf are the files (don't forget /etc/hosts too), also be sure to remove the dhcp-client app then restart the networking. Unless you have fat-fingers like I do and get one or more IP incorrect, you should be golden. Another way to go might be to set the system up with dynamic to make sure everything works, then switch it to static.
On 11/24/2010 01:28 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Bill Barry wrote: > >> It's your time, but DHCP was invented to take care of all of this for you. >> If you then still want static IP addresses you can tell the router which >> MAC addresses to assign which IP addresses and all is done. > Bill, > > I've 4 hosts on the network and static IPs have worked well for us. I > don't understand how DHCP will fix this current issue. Using the static IP > addresses the laptop can see all the internal hosts, including the gateway > router. If the wireless AP dhcp server assigns the same static IP address to > the laptop how does that allow it to get outside when it now cannot? > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- frank hunt (L0F) R0B-ZAR1 befuddled linux admin erstwhile photographer hillsboro oregon _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
