home network/site

[dubrowin at bbn.com (Sheldon Dubrowin)]

With a dynamic address, it is possible to find services (justlink.com) that
will host your DNS and point to a static hostname that you can update with
initialization scripts.  (mine uses dhclient-exit-hooks to update my static
hostname).  I had my cable modem installed on my laptop (Windoze 95) and then
configured my linux machine to use that mac address.  

in my /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 down
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 hw ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 up

Hope this helps.  (don't put the network card with the address you just
configured on the same ethernet, I'm not sure what will happen, but it should
be pretty weird.)

	Shel

On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 03:44:49PM -0500, TMacDonald wrote:
> Have set up home network, linux machine with ppp connection, windoze and
> FreeBSD running on other machines.  Have been looking into cable or dsl.
> 
> My expectations where that I could have setup done on windoze machine and then
> swap out for Linux or FreeBSD to hang the network on.  Also expected that I
> could register a domain name and run a server.
> 
> Both cable and dsl seem to use DHCP....so this precludes a registered domain
> name?
> 
> For seamless switch from windoze ISP setup to network looks like I should set
> up a duel boot machine (I assume the MAC address stays the same...card
> specific not OS specific?).
> 
> How does one come up with a service that will provide a fixed IP address and
> name servers (this is what I an looking for...right?).  I am in North Andover,
> I thank any and all for pointing in the right direction.  THANKS
> 
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