Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

[Puneit Singh <puneit.singh@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 14 September 2006 18:43, stephan beal wrote:
> Yo!
>
> i'm running a dhcp server on suse 10.1 and use yast to set it up. i'd
> like to assign static DHCP addresses to my 2 laptops. i know this can
> be done (read "done it before") via dhcp by storing the MAC addresses
> in the dhcp config, but i don't see how to do this via yast.
>
> Is it possible with yast or must i manually edit the dhcp config for
> this?
>
> i know someone's going to ask, "why assign a static IP via dhcp?" so
> i'll answer in advance: i need to make a port forward from my
> dhcp/router machine to one of my laptops so my boss can get to that
> machine. i don't want to always have to update my firewall settings to
> change the IP of the target machine. i use dhcp because it sets up the
> routing/dns for the hosted machines, saving me from that administrative
> tedium.

You can even check out the DHCP Server under Network Services in YaST....
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Puneit Singh
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