Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Aaron S. Joyner wrote:
Have you considered setting it with the DHCP response? You could do
it via his MAC address.
That would do it I guess. I don't really want to go to a lot of pain
at my end about this. I was hoping that I could get his machine to
behave like an other IP machine. If I can't I'll wait till there are
problems and sort them out then.
it's not unreasonable to do something like get an IP via DHCP, use
mDNS to see who else is on the network, if there's a collision,
release and renew with a different hostname, etc.
didn't know about mdns. interesting
Joe
Apple is big on using mDNS for things like this. Service Discovery,
automatic bootstrapping of disparate devices, etc. It actually works
reasonably well with out being entirely chatty.
Aaron S. Joyner
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