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Re: [opensuse] Can I lock a DHCP ip adress?
- From: James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:26:17 -0400
- Message-id: <47134E59.2060408@xxxxxxxxxx>
jdd wrote:
> Aniruddha wrote:
>
>>>> Errr, I am afraid not. He just receives his ip adress through dhcp.
>>> Ah - in that case, you're at the whims of the local network admins.
>>> In most
>
> and there may not be enough IP in the net for all the
> students+workers, so the necessity to use low lease time
>
With the widespread use of RFC1918 addresses, that's not likely to be an
issue.
> to solve your problem partly, you may be able to ask him to send a
> mail to you and take the IP from the mail (if it works, not sure)
>
Also with RFC1918 addresses, he won't be able to reach the computer
anyway, unless he has a VPN into the network.
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> Aniruddha wrote:
>
>>>> Errr, I am afraid not. He just receives his ip adress through dhcp.
>>> Ah - in that case, you're at the whims of the local network admins.
>>> In most
>
> and there may not be enough IP in the net for all the
> students+workers, so the necessity to use low lease time
>
With the widespread use of RFC1918 addresses, that's not likely to be an
issue.
> to solve your problem partly, you may be able to ask him to send a
> mail to you and take the IP from the mail (if it works, not sure)
>
Also with RFC1918 addresses, he won't be able to reach the computer
anyway, unless he has a VPN into the network.
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