Topic: Reserve ip to MAC address?

[Mikie]

Hey all.
I am running SME Server 5.5 on a P120, and using it just for the firewall and gateway on my LAN. It is set up as a DHCP server, and I want to have some static IP's assigned to my two servers. How can I assign/reserve IP's to the MAC addresses of these servers?
I am a linux/unix newbie, so if there is any command line stuff necessary, please make it clear for me.

Thanks
Mikie.

[guestHH]

Hi,

The easiest would be to disable the DHCP client on the 2 servers with static addresses and give them an IP outside the DHCP scope.

Regards,
guestHH

[Mikie]

Hi RequestedDeletion.

I've tried this, and it does work, but because I have no DNS running outside the scope to resolve the IP's, I cannot connect to the internet, hence the need for reserving an IP to a MAC address within the DHCP scope/range.
Thanks for the input though,
Mikie.

[Duncan]

http://www.e-smith.org/docs/manual/5.1/admin-hostnames.html#admin-hostnames-dhcp

[BillN]

As RequestedDeletion said, give them a static IP. Make sure you set their DNS, WINS and gateway to the E-Smith box's IP address.

Additionaly, if you need these boxes to be seen by the outside, you will have to set them up as Duncan pointed out.

Bill

[Mikie]

Thanks very much for all your help - very much appreciated. Have got it sorted now, so thank you again.
Mike

[Charlie Brady]

BillN wrote:

> As RequestedDeletion said, give them a static IP. Make sure you set
> their DNS, WINS and gateway to the E-Smith box's IP address.

Duncan suggested the best way to do this.

> Additionaly, if you need these boxes to be seen by the
> outside, you will have to set them up as Duncan pointed out.

No, Duncan's suggestion had nothing to do with being seen by the outside.

Charlie

[BillN]

I don't know what I did.... maybe got wild with the ole wheel mouse.

I somehow wound up up a bit on configure host names.

Sorry about that...

Bill