I'd look to see your dhcpd.conf. Sounds like this would be something useful to know. There have been some good solutions here about discovering one's address. Interesting reads tonight. Gregory Nowak writes: > From: Gregory Nowak <greg at romuald.net.eu.org> > > My dhcp server assigns addresses to some machines statically, and dynamically to others. > Let me know if you would like to see my /etc/dhcpd.conf file if that would help you out. > > Greg > > > On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 02:43:13PM -0400, Lorenzo Prince wrote: > > I couldn't seem to find any way to hard-code an IP address on the target, > > but I was able to setup DHCPD so that it would only assigh the IP address > > I wanted. I simply coded the subnet as 10.1.1.0 and under that I told it > > to assign IP addresses in the range 10.1.1.2 to 10.1.1.2. Making both of > > these numbers the same ensures that I ALWAYS get the same IP address of > > 10.1.1.2 on the target when doing a telnet install of RH9 co I don't even > > have to ping the broadcast address to find out which IP dhcpd gave it. > > > > Lorenzo > > > > Anyone who thinks UNIX is intuitive should be forced to write 5000 lines of > > code using nothing but vi or emacs. AAAAACK! > > -- Discussion on the intuitiveness of commands, especially Emacs > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
