From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 7 09:31:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA24462 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 09:31:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hera.webcom.com (hera.webcom.com [209.1.28.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA24444 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 09:30:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from graeme@echidna.com) Received: from kigal.webcom.com (kigal.webcom.com [209.1.28.57]) by hera.webcom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA01827; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 16:30:38 -0700 Received: from [199.183.207.34] by inanna.webcom.com (WebCom SMTP 1.2.1) with SMTP id 9432725; Wed Oct 07 09:28 PDT 1998 Message-Id: <361BC062.33D7@echidna.com> Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 12:26:26 -0700 From: Graeme Tait Organization: Echidna X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Bryce Newall Cc: vega vega , FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: setting up ethernet interface References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bryce Newall wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, vega vega wrote: > > > school, i cant get a connection to the dhcp server to > > get my static ip > > You mean dynamic IP, right? Static IP and DHCP are contradictory. :) Why couldn't you use DHCP to assign static addresses? I understood the DHCP server's job was to reconfigure the network as required, and this would presumably include setting up the routing from the given IP to the client. As a related example, I have a static IP with a dialup account. With this provider, I can dial in to any POP in the provider's coverage area (mid-Atlantic), and still have that IP. But the routing will be different. The static IP is dynamically assigned in the dialup negotiation, and somehow the routing is set up dynamically in the ISP's network. -- Graeme Tait - Echidna To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message