Re: [gentoo-user] How to dhcp to a specific address, and thank you

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Monday 24 September 2007, Neil Walker wrote:
> Alan E. Davis wrote:
> > My QUESTION: I connect two machines at home to a wireless router, with
> > my IP number a local one, assigned by the router.  Is it reasonable to
> > set this up so my main home machine has the same IP number always, so
> > I can set up other machines to print over the local wireless net?
>
> Yes, of course you can. You can either set it up with a static address
> in /etc/conf.d/net with something like:
>
> config_ath0=( "192.168.1.2" )
> routes_ath0=( "default via 192.168.1.1" )
>
> substituting whatever is appropriate for your interface and addresses or
> you can configure the router to always give the same IP address to the
> MAC address of your main machine.

Or you can set it at the router, i.e. assign static IP addresses at the router 
GUI and run dhcpcd at your different boxen.
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Regards,
Mick

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