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

[Eric Gearhart]

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Paul Scott <waterhorse at ultrasw.com> wrote:
> 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.


I agree with Paul... typically servers are NEVER dhcp clients... they
always have static IPs...

--
Eric
http://nixwizard.net