and this isnt a solution because.... ???? # arp -a engr-gw-74.brocade.com (192.168.74.1) at 00:00:0C:07:AC:01 [ether] on eth0 On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 17:26 -0600, Ian Pilcher wrote: > Scot L. Harris wrote: > > Many gateway boxes, assume you mean either a router or a linux box > > acting as a gateway/DHCP server, will allow you to specify a specific IP > > address to assign to specified MAC addresses. Set it to give your > > laptop the same IP address anytime it requests via DHCP an IP address > > and you know what it will be. > > Mine doesn't. Thus the question. > > -- > ======================================================================== > Ian Pilcher i.pilcher@xxxxxxxxxxx > ======================================================================== > -- Jack Craig XPath/SAS Team Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. 1600 Technology Dr. San Jose, CA 95110 408.333.7478 Direct E-mail: jcraig@xxxxxxxxxxx