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

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

[Alan E. Davis]

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I hope I will be forgiven for wasting bandwidth; I want very much to express
my gratitude to those developers, documentation writers, and others, that
Gentoo is such an excellent distro.  If three is anything I can figure to
do---possible documentation or perhaps an ebuild or two---I want to do so.
For right now, let me send my thanks to all.  I cannot express my good
feelings well enough about the solidity of my new install.

I have gotten Gentoo running on a new machine (my fourth install, I think),
and it all went well---better than ever!  I am highly pleased...

I was even able to connect to a WPA encrypted network with minimal hassle,
using excellent instructions availalbe in the docs, forum, and wiki.  It
went more easily than a year ago.

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?

ASIDE:  I can't speak too highly of the solidity of the install.  Maybe
partly because I now understand the Gentoo system better, I have not had to
ask many questions.  When something troubles, it is easier to figure out
why.  I don't want to bog down in a discussion of other distros and the
fiddling that led to nowhere; suffice it to say, Gentoo just works, for me,
as long as I am willing to put in the time, and my other efforts were less
satisfactory.

Thank you!

Alan Davis

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Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan  lngndvs@gmail.com

"It's never a matter of liking or disliking ..."
       ---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man

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

[Neil Walker]

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.

Be lucky,

Neil


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

[Mick]

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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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