config IP address - need help

[John Abreau]

Jerry Feldman <gaf at Blu.Org> writes:

> That's actually not the case that I've observed. I have changed my settings 
> several times on my laptop, both at MIT switching from a dynamic IP address 
> (home and work) to a static IP address without the need for a reboot or a 
> restart of X. The other day I took my laptop off the public net at Compaq, 
> put in a static IP address, transferred a file, then reconnected it to the 
> public net.

I've seen it happen both ways. Some dhcp servers send a new hostname to the
linux client, others don't. I've noticed my netgear firewall leaves the 
hostname
alone when I use dhcp, but the dhcp servers at the last two places I 
worked would
return a hostname of the form "dhcp-192-168-33-44", which resulted in 
problems
with X authentication.


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