Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 02:30:30 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: "Brett L. Brown" <brett-brown@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: loosing wireless connection... Message-ID: <20031130013030.GD8823@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <200311291507.27409.brett-brown@earthlink.net> References: <200311291507.27409.brett-brown@earthlink.net>
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On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 03:07:27PM +0000, Brett L. Brown wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on a Dell Latitude c600. The laptop is > continuously powered on. When I close my laptop I lose my dhcp lease. I would > prefer the behavior of not ever loosing my dhcp lease when I close my screen. > If I can't have this what is a quick way to request another lease without > having to loose my login session or rebooting. Currently I have to leave my > screen open or if my wife closes it for me I have to reboot. :( > > brett That depend what you using for a DHCP server. If you use isc-dhcpd then you can configure it to bind an IP to your MAC address. I can't give you an example. I think one exist in in the manual. You could also just use a static IP as an alternitive. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/
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