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.
