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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 9.x => Topic started by: LANMonkey on August 09, 2016, 11:54:11 PM

Title: How to make SME use DHCP for its IP address
Post by: LANMonkey on August 09, 2016, 11:54:11 PM

I am having some modem/router problems that require me to have SME use a DHCP server to get its IP address.

A quick search turned up a solution where you set up SME as a gateway/server and then plug the gateway side into the router's LAN ports:

https://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,34032.msg145955.html#msg145955

I would just add another NIC, leave the additional port empty and use the modem/router for the rest of the computers.  I have tried setting up SME for gateway/server without a second NIC and, of course, it doesn't work.  -- worth a try, anyway.

Would this work?  Or is there another option?  I was hoping there might be a contrib that would make SME use DHCP in server only mode.

Title: Re: How to make SME use DHCP for its IP address
Post by: Jean-Philippe Pialasse on August 10, 2016, 07:00:28 AM

This not possible as server only...

However this is not a viable solution for a server to have dhcp attributed ip.

Your router should be ( and from what i have seen is able, as in place of selecting a device on the list you can enter an ip)  able to handle a fixed ip device.