[Tfug] Help! Have a server getting it's address via DHCP: need a fixed reference point...

Paul Scott waterhorse at ultrasw.com
Thu Dec 25 21:30:10 MST 2008


Andrew Ayre wrote:
> Why not configure your DHCP server to always give the same IP address 
> to a specific MAC address? My old Netgear router did that, but my 
> current Linksys does not (lame).
>
> Andy
>
> Jim March wrote:
>> Folks, this is driving me nuts.
>>
>> Even without rebooting this box, it's IP address keeps changing on me.
>>  So the server access bash scripting I do stops working all too soon.
Catching this thread a little late but why not fixed IP's?  That's how 
my home LAN is set up.

Paul Scott





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