Marc Chamberlin wrote:

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Thanks David for the DHCP suggestion, I have been fooling around with it and there is a wrinkle in our network environment that I am not finding a solution for when using your approach to assign a single fixed address to a laptop. We have both a wired and a wireless network and laptops do change the way they are connecting to the network from time to time. This means that a particular laptop could be using one of two different hardware MAC addresses and apparently the DHCP server (the one that comes with SuSE which we use on our main server) will not allow me to assign the same fixed IP address to two different MAC addresses?? I can understand if that is just the way it is, even seems logical since the DHCP server may not have a means to "know" that two different MAC addresses actually belong to the same laptop.. I have tried some variations on your theme but so far no joy getting the DHCP server to assign the same IP address to two different MAC addresses...

I can work around this, just have to make my scripts a bit smarter is all... (All this is making me appreciate the days when someone else was the sys admin, and not me... but that was when I worked for a great big corporation that could afford em!)

Marc...

Ah hah! You are right. I only considered my laptop a connecting wirelessly. I know I wouldn't want to assign the same IP to both mac addresses. If I were worried about controlling the wired connection as well, then I would just make another address assignment in dhcpd.conf like this: host P35a.3111skyline.com { hardware ethernet [newWiredMACaddress]; fixed-address 192.168.6.201; # 201 instead of 101 } That way I could at least maintain some numerical sanity to the IP scheme. Run wireless IPs 100-> and run wired 200-> for the machines I was assigning fixed addresses to. (Of course, then the problem of the duplicate hostnames rears its ugly head if somebody manages to connect both wired and wirelessly at the same time ;-) -- 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