Re: [UUG/MLUG] dynamic IP script

[Steve Bohm <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Actually, I believe (or at least I've heard) that DHCP will try to give
you the same IP address you had previously when your lease runs out.  If
it CAN give it back to you, it will.  If not, you'll get a new one.  The
only way it's a big issue is if you are disconnected from the network for
an extended period of time.  Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Steve Bohm


On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Scott McCool wrote:

> 
> My guess is what you want isn't quite possible.  I'm not sure, but I
> _BELIEVE_ DHCP works by giving you an IP at "random".  Once you have it,
> though, you usually keep it as long as your machine is up.  You could then
> lose it when you took the interface down or shut the machine down.  I
> think #2 isn't an issue.
> 
> If the reason you want a static IP is you want a domain name for it just
> go to dyndns.org or any of the other free providers, they'll map a name to
> your IP and at least dyndns.org offers clients that will automatically
> update the hostname / ip pair whenever your address changes.
> 
> -Scott
> 
> 
> 
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> Scott McCool
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> 
> On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Kyle Krieg wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Is there any scripts out there that 
> > 
> > 1) when my machine boots up, tries to get the same IP address everytime
> > through DHCP.
> > 
> > 2) when the IP "lease" is up and the ISP tries to give me a new IP, it
> > grabs the same IP address, granted that #1 works up above...
> > 
> > Is any of this possible?
> > 
> > 
> > 
>