DHCP with static address

[Monty J. Harder]

> "Gerald Combs" <gerald at zing.org> wrote:
>
> > > I am running Gentoo on an AMD box.  Is it possible to set up my NIC
for
> > > dhcp from a Linksys router, but give it a static IP address?  I would
> > > like my machine to have the same IP address, but be able to get new
DNS
> > > server entries, etc. when necessary.
>
> > grabbed your address, however.  If you want to force an address, you
> > could feed the client a script name using the "-c" option, and have the
> > script set your address.
>
>   Or you could see if the Linksys has an option for always giving the same
> IP address to a certain MAC address.  I have my cheapie Gigafast router
set
> to give this box 192.168.1.200.  Technically it isn't 'static', but for
all
> practical purposes it is.
>