Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

[stephan beal <stephan@xxxxxxxx>]

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.

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