On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 17:59 -0500, Peter Horst 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? You really want a server to have a static address, so why not set it up to always use one? The other point that springs to mind is: If it's your server, use it as your DHCP server, too. -- (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
