basic question about assigning ip address
Tim
ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Mon Oct 1 05:49:20 UTC 2007
On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 17:59 -0500, Peter Horst wrote:
> I have a Fedora machine I'm using as a home server, without a keyboard
> or monitor. I'd like to set it up such that upon rebooting it first
> checks to see if there is a DHCP server on the network, and if so, grabs
> an ip address from it. But if there isn't one, it assigns itself a
> static address. Is this doable?
You really want a server to have a static address, so why not set it up
to always use one? The other point that springs to mind is: If it's
your server, use it as your DHCP server, too.
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