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

[Jeremy Huber]

Two things...  dhcpd can be set up to assign IP X to MAC address Y... (or at
least the linux version of dhcpd can.. don't know about your router.  Also,
most DHCP clients will ask the server for the IP that they had last time,
and it will tell them if they can have it or not.  I know in Windows this is
the default..  If linux isn't doing it, try checking the docs for dhcpcd or
pump to see if they can do it.

Jeremy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Threlkeld" <gthrelk at attbi.com>
To: "CLUE-Tech" <clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us>
Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 7:40 PM
Subject: [CLUE-Tech] Forcing TCP/IP Address - RedHat 7.3


> 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
>
>
>
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