[CLUE-Tech] Forcing TCP/IP Address - RedHat 7.3

[Gary Threlkeld]

Hello Network Gru's -

I'm trying to CONSISTANTLY get two machines to talk to one another.
My problem currently is that I have a router that has DHCP turned.  It
assigns machines IP addresses in the order in which machines log onto
the network such as:

Router:     192.168.2.1
Tom:        192.168.2.100
Dick:        192.168.2.101

If I set the /etc/host file to reflect these IP addresses and the
machines are logged onto the network in the order of Tom first and
Dick second, the machines can find each other by their names OK -
(such as ping Tom or ping Dick).  But if the machines are logged onto
the network in a different order, their assigned IP addresses are
swapped - and they can't find each other.

I can turn off DHCP but my question is how do I force setting of each
machine's TCP/IP address so that it is consistantly assigned the same
IP address on the network?

Thanks,

Gary Threlkeld
Email:      gthrelk at attbi.com