On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:21:59PM -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 09:12 pm, Nathaniel Bolivar wrote:
the gui of yast-dhcp configuration doesn't seem to have an option to assign fixed-ip address on specific mac address which leaves me with no option but to hand code the config files. it would have been a lot simpler for not so experienced linux users like me to use the gui rather than hand code the config files. i wonder why this was not present in version 10 when this exact feature is found in sles9.
I think you're asking Yast to do something that your Router is supposed to do. [...] Yast can't tell the router to hand out a specific IP address from DCHP.
Sounds to me like you want to configure your NIC with a static IP address, something Yast can do quite easily.
I understood the OP's question rather differently: I thought he is using a SuSE machine as DHCP *server*, in which case it is a valid task to be able to set up that server to give out fixed IPs to certain MACs (in fact, that's exactly the way our SuSE 9.1 DHCP server is configured). However, the OP is right: YaST seemingly only supports the configuration of dynamic DHCP - if you want to set up static DHCP, you have to do it manually. Cheerio, Thomas