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Re: getting ip from dhcp

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Raymond Popowich)
Tue Nov 17 18:34:34 1998

Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 18:33:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Raymond Popowich <popowich@acsu.buffalo.edu>
To: Statux <statux@bigfoot.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <001501be1270$11032b10$1566e4d0@daemon-clan.dyn.ml.org>
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On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Statux wrote:

I realize that a dhcp server hands out random IP's/leases, but...

Is there a way to say "If someone does not have ip x.x.x.x give it to
me, othewise just go ahead and give me what you wanted to assign me
anyways..."   ??? 

>> like a perticular IP? If so... that's not what a DHCP server does...
>> 

>> >
>> >assuning that an old IP is not being used by someone else, does anyone
>> >know how to specifically request an IP from a DHCP server?  I have
>> >tried a few things but none of them seem to work.  the 0.70 docs do
>> >not help.
>> >

>> >>> Blair Craft
>> >>> bsc@klondike.ml.org
>> >>> http://www.klondike.ml.org/~bsc
>> >>>           
>> >>> 
>> >
>> >-----
>> >Raymond Popowich
>> >popowich@acsu.buffalo.edu
>> >
>> >
>> >
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-----
Raymond Popowich
popowich@acsu.buffalo.edu



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