Re: NetworkManager 0.7 and static IP - how ?!?

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On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 14:40 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:30:14 -0400
> Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Frank, unless I totally misread the the original post, there is no "your 
> > dhcp server" to configure to anything, he has been told to use a static 
> > IP address. That means his computer doesn't ask for an IP, it uses the 
> > same IP all the time.
> 
> It's my understanding that there is a DHCP server on the network because his
> laptop receives a "random IP address" when Network Manager sends its dhcp
> request.
> 
> All he has to do is to configure that dhcp server (or get whoever is in charge
> of that dhcp server to configure it) to provide the correct IP address to his
> laptop.  This is done by associating the mac address of his laptop to the IP
> address that he requires as part of the dhcp server's configuration.
> 
> The laptop's mac address can be found by typing this at a command prompt:
> "/sbin/ifconfig".  The series of numbers and letters following "HWaddr" is the
> mac address of the network card.
> 
> -- 
> MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com
> 

Yes, I've done that with my router at home - using DHCP to assign a
fixed IP address. As I said, I have no problem getting IT to do this - I
just thought Fedora 8 would work at least as well as Fedora 6 when this
worked just fine.

Rick B.


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