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

[Thomas C. Meggs]

Well, using DHCP doesn't mean you can't have a static IP. I exclusively 
use DHCP at home specifically because most places you go use a DHCP 
server to provide addresses. It's actually rather easy to setup DHCP to 
hand out a static IP. The sample dhcpd.conf shipped with RedHat should 
contain some examples. If not, here is some documentation to take you 
where you want to go, I believe that RH8 uses ISC dhcpd...

http://arsinfo.cit.buffalo.edu/FAQ/faq.cgi?pkg=ISC%20DHCP&cat=Configuration#114

Regards,
Tom

Stephen P. Schaefer wrote:
> 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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