On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 11:13:32AM -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I have a PC with RH9 installed on it, but because the hard drive is so > small, I only did a server install on it. My network receives DHCP > addresses from the router. It's thunderstorm season here in Oklahoma, > and when the power goes off the router gets reset, along with all the > DHCP addresses. Others have answered the question as to how to set up your system with a static IP address. However, if your provider has set up DHCP, then you must use it - you can't just assume that you can grab a static IP address and all will be well. DHCP will normally give you the same address over and over again if the lease times have been set up properly. If your provider has really short lease times, you need to be careful that somebody else hasn't grabbed your IP address while your router was down. If you try and take an address that somebody already has, you'll be in worse trouble than you were before. I'd suggest a 2-phase approach: 1. Get a UPS for your router. They're cheap and a small UPS will keep a cable modem powered up probably forever. 2. Set your DNS up to take dynamic DNS updates. Many providers will allow this and you when your server comes back up, you simply send a dynamic DNS update out with the new address and nobody notices the difference. I've been running my e-mail and web servers here for a few years on a dynamic address and it's been pretty much flawless. If you need instructions, let me know. -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
