-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2013-04-29 at 10:11 -0400, James Knott wrote:
# man dhchd.conf No manual entry for dhchd.conf
It is "man dhcpd.conf", not "man dhchd.conf" :-)
That computer is running openSUSE 11.4.
My comment was: "With DHCP servers, you can assign an IP address to a specific MAC address and then use DNS to provide the host name to that device, just as you would with a static IP address."
I use this in the dhcpd server used by vmware player: host oS-12.2 { hardware ethernet 00:0C:29:97:EA:50; fixed-address 192.168.74.125; } I see this in the manual: An option host-name statement within a host dec- laration will override the use of the name in the host declaration. It should be noted here that most DHCP clients completely ignore the host-name option sent by the DHCP server, and there is no way to configure them not to do this. So you generally have a choice of either not having any hostname to client IP address mapping that the client will recognize, or doing DNS updates. It is beyond the scope of this document to describe how to make this determination. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.1 x86_64 "Asparagus" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlF+iQMACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WI2wCfYK0KLDuYxIS2Gg160Z8Zu8i8 0+MAn3sM51xdLCn+wH4wAnLkZEr+Y4Al =dj2C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org