On 9/29/07, Peter Horst <phorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a Fedora machine I'm using as a home server, without a keyboard > or monitor. I'd like to set it up such that upon rebooting it first > checks to see if there is a DHCP server on the network, and if so, grabs > an ip address from it. But if there isn't one, it assigns itself a > static address. Is this doable? > > Thank you. You could run a script at the end of the re-boot to check the IP. If no IP has been assigned then the script could assign a static one via the ifconfig command. Jacques B.