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From: Justin P. <pap...@gm...> - 2006-08-23 21:59:00
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On 8/23/06, GROG! (Jeff Howie) <Ube...@gm...> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 07:09:56PM -0700, Justin Patrin wrote: > >On 8/22/06, Michael Rozdoba <mr...@ca...>wrote: > > > >Jeff: If what you want it for your DHCP server to always give you the > >same IP then you need to tell your DHCP server to always give the MAC > >of your Z's wifi card the same IP. You can't choose to use static and > >force the DHCP server to give you a certain IP. It doesn't and > >shouldn't work like that. > > Ah. Now a little light-bubl goes off in my little newbie brain :?). I > didn't realize that udhcpc is the dhcp requester, correct? I was > having a problem but trying to fix it the wrong way. > > Let's start over. Going back to my original post with my original > interfaces entry: > > iface eth0 inet static > wireless_mode xxxxxxx > wireless_essid xxxxxxx > wireless_key xxxxxxxxxxx > wireless_channel x > gateway 10.0.0.1 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > address 10.0.0.199 > > I connect to my router just fine, obtaining the ip that I request. My > actual _problem_ (which I tried solving using udhcpc %^o) is that I'm > not getting proper dns. I can ping other boxes, both local & remote, > by ip but not by name. Now when using dhcp (as I now know I was > forcing it do do) I get assigned the dns servers properly from the > router, so what do I have to do to get them recognized statically? > > Sorry for the newbie inspired confusion. > Edit /etc/resolv.conf. -- Justin Patrin |