Re: static

[Neal Becker <ndbecker2 verizon net>]

On Friday 11 March 2005 4:33 pm, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 06:59 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> > Hi.  I'd really like to use networkmanager to move back/forth from
> > home/work/girlfriend.  One problem.  I need a fixed IP at home (but for
> > work I need dhcp), so I can forward a specific port through my wireless
> > router to my laptop for VPN.  This works fine with standard redhat/fc3
> > setup, but I don't think networkmanager can do this, can it?
>
> Why not set up your DHCP server at home to always give your system the
> same IP address?  It's easy if you are using the ISC dhcpd (standard in
> Fedora Core):
>
> host abcde {
>         hardware ethernet 00:11:22:33:44:55;
>         fixed-address 192.168.0.100;
> }
>
> May be more difficult if you are using some other DHCP server.
>
> Jeff

Linksys WRT54G @home - no option to set a fixed address on DHCP server.