So the next question would be... Is a Win4Lin install using a static
MAC address or a dynamic one? Vmware uses a dynamic one by default, but
they document how to set it to a static address.
Netraverse, can you offer me a clue on that?
*Brandon
John Hiemenz wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 May 2001 19:33, you wrote:
>
>> It would appear that what is broken is the vnet's ability to have a dhcp
>> server hosting from another subnet... This is the only thing I can find
>> in common between work and my home router... My home router gets
>> assigned an address via PPP, but I also have a routed subnet... and that
>> subnet isn't is no where near my PPP assigned IP... So the router is
>> configured to route to a virtual interface (shared on its eth0). So all
>> the machines that do work via dhcp say the dhcp server is the PPP
>> assigned address (208.49.7.250) and not the router's virtual interface
>> (207.227.237.209).
>>
>> VMWare doesn't have this problem, nor do real windows, linux and
>> macintosh systems... Just vnet.
>>
>> dhcproxy doesn't help either. It just makes windows assign all ip's to
>> 0.0.0.0... Grrrr.
>>
>> Guess I'm going to have to switch you hosting DHCP on my linux box...
>> both here *and* at work. Anyone know a way to set it up so I won't be
>> handing out IP's to everyone at work... only my win4lin session?
>
>
>
> I use DHCP to assign IP address based on the MAC address on the NIC. This
> pretty much limits who's gonna get an IP from me... It also allows me to
> assign 'static' IP to a NIC, since that NIC always gets the same IP sent to
> it when it makes a DHCP request.
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