Just setup a DHCP server at home with just 1 IP (maybe overkill for just 1
machine, but when you get more, you'll already have a DHCP server setup :)

Gabe

On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 10:54:35PM -0500, Perry Hoekstra wrote:
> Greet the sun all,
> 
> I have a laptop I setup to get an TCP/IP address through a DHCP server
> when logged in at work.  How would I assign a static TCP/IP when I hook
> up the laptop when I am at home or when I plug into a static IP
> network?  Right now, I went to look at the networks file within the
> /etc/init.d but it did not exist.  Does anybody have this type of
> problem/configuration?  Is there an easy configuration answer or must I
> create some type of script that detects the presence of a DHCP server?
> 
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> Perry Hoekstra
> E-Commerce Architect
> Talent Software Service
> dutchman at mn.uswest.net
> 
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