[TriLUG] [OT] Setting up a home wireless network

[Stephen P. Schaefer]

I was using static addresses in my home network until recently, but then 
I found myself at a client where I had to use DHCP with my RH 8.0 
laptop.  For a few days, I would use neat every morning to go to DHCP, 
and again in the evening to go static, but that got old -- particularly 
because, even though neat has "profiles" changing eth0 to DHCP in one 
profile changed it to DHCP in all the profiles, and the same with 
static.  So it wasn't just a matter of choosing a profile.  And now, 
after some updates from Red Hat, almost all marked as security 
enhancements, I can't start neat from the user account and get prompted 
for the root password -- now it just silently fails (no window, no 
nothing - I can't even find an error message - I need to learn where to 
look).  neat still works from the root account.  After all that, it was 
easier (<30min) to set up a DHCP server at home than to put up with all 
this.

     - Stephen P. Schaefer

Andrew Perrin wrote:
> On 18 Dec 2002, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> 
> 
>>Well, I didn't even see that in the manual (RTFM? What's that? :),
>>and just let my internal network's DHCP server handle everything
>>and haven't had any problems with it.  The only thing I did with
>>the WAP was set a static IP for it in my local network, set the
>>ESSID, and set mac-filtering.  So, if you have another DHCP server,
>>you might try using that. (or you could just stay with your static
>>IP, but I personally like DHCP because I move my laptop between
>>systems some)
> 
> 
> Yes - DHCP is on my list of future improvements to the home network, but
> not really likely to happen soon.
> 
> ap
> 
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