NFS help

[brad.mugleston at comcast.net]

On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, inode0 wrote:

> On 8/26/05, brad.mugleston at comcast.net <brad.mugleston at comcast.net> wrote:
> > So, why bother with DHCP if  your going to assign a fixed IP
> > anyway?  Just wondering...
>
> If you use DHCP anyway, perhaps you have a dynamic pool of IPs you
> hand out to random machines that "plug in" to your network, perhaps
> you have a pool of IPs (dynamic or fixed) to use with machines that
> boot over the network, you just might find it more convenient to set
> up all of your machines to configure their networking using DHCP. That
> is usually much simpler than configuring things by hand.
>
> You can still configure the machines with fixed addresses by hand if
> you prefer, but you can also boot them up with DHCP providing the
> networking details.
>
> John
>
John,

I don't follow what your saying - I'm trying to set up an NFS
system using DHPC - it sounds like your suggesting I use DHCP
(which I am) but how do I set up my /etc/fstab to mount the files
on different machines using hostnames with IP's that can change
under DHCP?

Brad


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