controlling DHCP

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Thursday 27 April 2006 9:44 am, Laura Conrad wrote:
>
> At the moment, even when it can remember the addresses it had before,
> it gives them out by Mac address, so the laptop is one address when
> it's hooked up to an ethernet cable and a different one when it's
> running wireless, regardless of operating system.
Why not just assign static addresses. I have my laptop set up with a static 
address for both the wireless and wired. Works fine under Linux. 
I also use static addresses for my desktop and my wife's desktop system. 

Routers generally will give out the same IP address based on Mac, but I have 
seen this change. On my laptop, I just set up a number of profiles:
1. Home Wired - static IP
2. Work wired - dynamic IP.
3. Home Wireless (encrypted) - static IP same IP as Home Wired.
4. Open Wireless for BLU meetings at MIT, hotels, et. al.
5. Dynamic wired - for places like Northeastern.

I also have different printers configured so I can use the printers at work.
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