Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 12:33:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Fosburgh <jef53313@Bayou.UH.EDU> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EtherExpress 16 Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.970918123134.11117B-100000@Bayou.UH.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970917205431.5533I-100000@localhost>
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On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Jonathan Fosburgh wrote: > > > After a little tinkering I have come to the conclusion that my problem > > with the card results from our IP addresses on the net being dynamically > > assigned. Because I do not have an IP I did not have one entered in the > > ifconfig_ie0 line. When I put in a dummy address the card still registers > > the network, but of course I cannot use that address. Is there anyway to > > get this to work with a dynamic address? > > ``dynamic'' in what sense? Does your network use DHCP, BOOTP or what? > > Have you considered applying to your network admin to have a static > address for your computer? We have spare space in our subnets here at the > UO to allocate some static addresses. The rest are done by DHCP. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo > I talked to one of the sysadmins here and he said that the IP is assigned everytime the computer tries to connect to the net. There is no way to get a static address at least that he knew of. I will be talking to someone else about this later so hopefully I can get some good news in that respect, but the guy I talked to said he thinks it is using DHCP.
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