From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 26 14:17:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64E2937B407 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 14:17:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f6QLGqF27550; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 09:16:52 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 09:16:52 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: J Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DHCP client IP Message-ID: <20010727091651.D25185@itouchnz.itouch> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from dude@shell.schulte.org on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:15:30PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:15:30PM -0500, J wrote: > I've recently installed FreeBSD on one of the computers in my college's > lab. All computers here are DHCP clients, and their IP addres is never > static. Is there a way to predict the next IP address? Also, if the > computer doesnt get logged off, will this prevent the IP address from > regulating? Please cc: In /etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_xl0="DHCP" Change the xl0 to your NIC interface... -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message