Marc Chamberlin wrote: <snip>
Kai - to answer your questions, my network consists mostly of laptops that come and go and some desktops. All are dual booted to either Windoz or Linux, users choice. Our DHCP server does know their names and does assign a fixed static internal network address to each one. So that simplifies the problem a lot. Also we have a static file system structure that must be set up on each system so we can work with that. <snip>
Marc, An even easier way for the dual-boot laptop issue, (if your users are smart enough to maintain the same hostname in Linux and windows) is to configure dhcpd.conf like: subnet 192.168.6.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { option domain-name "3111skyline.com"; ddns-domainname "3111skyline.com"; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; range dynamic-bootp 192.168.6.110 192.168.6.150; default-lease-time 28800; max-lease-time 172800; zone 3111skyline.com. {primary 127.0.0.1; key DHCP_UPDATER; } zone 6.168.192.in-addr.arpa. { primary 127.0.0.1; key DHCP_UPDATER; } # # We want P35a to appear at the same fixed address regardless of # which OS is booted to prevent multiple dhcp leases belonging to the # same hardware address # host P35a.3111skyline.com { hardware ethernet 00:26:f5:17:2d:83; fixed-address 192.168.6.101; } That way no matter which OS they use, the IP dhcpd hands out is always the same for the same hostname/mac address of any given box. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org