DHCP install

[Thomas Dodd]

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Rick Stevens wrote:
| Thomas Dodd wrote:

| No, Thomas.  You can't have a static IP on an interface AND have a DHCP
| IP on the SAME interface.  You get one or the other, not both.  If the
| /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX file says "BOOTPROTO=static",
| you get a static IP.  If it says "BOOTPROTO=dhcp", it's DHCP.  You can't
| have both.

No one mentioned BOOTPROTO. If my IP is always the same, it's static.
Check the definition of "static."

| Even if you have DHCP assign you the same IP every time, it's still a
| DHCP-supplied IP, not a static IP despite the fact it's the same IP over
| and over again.  "Static IP" in network parlance does not mean "it never
| changes", it means "it's hard-configured".

So If my DSL provider charges me extra for a static IP address, and I
still use DHCP to configure the network, am I being ripped off?

No. I paid to always have the same IP address and that's what I get. How
The interface is configured doesn't really matter.

| <IMHO>
| And I don't agree that it's particularly handy.  Unless you're doing
| some very weird gateway, netmask or DNS change periodically and want to
| pass that along via DHCP, getting the same IP and other network data via
| DHCP is a waste of time and bandwidth.
|
| If you get the same IP each time, just set it up as static.  Simply edit
| /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX once to set the IP and
| netmask, modify /etc/resolv.conf once to set the DNS resolvers and edit
| /etc/sysconfig/network once to set the hostname and gateway and you're
| done with it.
| </IHMO>

Untill I take my machine to another site. Then I have to cahe my IP to
match their subnet. With DHCP, I get the correct information at anotyher
site, but when I'm back, I have my normal address again. This requires
no changes by me, the user.

Seams quite handy to me.

	-Thomas
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