On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:57:05 -0500 "Jon VW" <jrvw4 at hotpop.com> wrote: > > > >You could always set up a dhcp server on your home network. They > aren't that hard to set up. > > > >Nate > > Not really a good option since the machines on the home network are. > 1.) windows machines (98 and one very slow (133Mhz) XP), I've been > unable to find a windows dhcp server (correct me if I'm wrong) > 2.) very slow (133Mhz-233Mhz) > 3.) out of my control 8-9 month out of the year while I'm at school. > (keeping things simple is the easest way to keep me from getting calls > about the computers not working) > 4.) None of the machines is ever left on all the time. > Well, none of these are very good reasons for not running DHCP. You can static IP all of them, and still have a small range of DHCP addresses to assign to your laptop. I do that here at home. My firewall is a P166 that serves DHCP (not a very good thing I know, but I'm too lazy to set it up on my DNS server right now). -- Shawn The difficult we do today; the impossible take a little longer. Ne Obliviscaris -- "Forget Not" _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list