DHCP with static address

[Jonathan]

On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 15:46, Gene Dascher 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.
> 
> Thanks
> Gene
Well if you were using your Gentoo (tm) box as a dhcp server you would do something like this:

shared-network LOCAL-NET {
        option  domain-name "blah.test";
        option  domain-name-servers 24.94.165.25, 24.94.163.113,
24.94.165.132;
        default-lease-time 60000;
        max-lease-time 72000;
        subnet 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
                option routers 10.0.0.1;
                range 10.0.0.4 10.0.0.10; }
host test1
{
hardware ethernet 00:00:AA:BB:CC:DD;
fixed-address 10.0.0.2;
}

host test2
{
hardware ethernet 00:00:00:AA:BB:CC;
fixed-address 10.0.0.3;
}
}

NOW to your question. I would just say look in /etc/conf.d/net for
setting a static ip. Just enter in the information of what the Linksys
router sets, and make sure not to use an ip in use =). Other then that
it should just work just fine. Oh and comment out all dhcpd references. 

Example: /etc/conf.d/net
iface_eth0="207.170.82.202 broadcast 207.0.255.255 netmask 255.255.0.0

Jonathan