John Niven wrote:
Yes the setup of MacTCP isn't a big deal - but having to get my companies MIS people to assign a fixed IP address is the real problem. In my past company they were good about it. I haven't asked in my new company - they would probably be OK with it. I just think it's a shame to need special treatment for something that's not really a benefit to the company.
I maybe completely off here. I have used different dhcp servers with static addresses on the macs, no special treatment was required, a bit of care taken to find which way the dhcp server doles out numbers so the mac doesn't clash and a couple of addresses for gateway and dns. Bacisly easy to find stuff on whatever you use as a workstation.
I did just think of a possible way around this :-) If I got one of those cable-internet router boxes I could create my own office LAN. Connecting the routers WAN port to the office ethernet, and the Mac to the router. I believe the router would then do the interfacing with the main DHCP server, while I could just assign my own IP on the LAN side. I guess that would put a firewall between us too!
Anyone have a router/dhcp box that wont except static a address, even my cable connection can be used with a static address, atleast for the duration of the lease.
Guess I dont understand the question. :(
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