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? > > -- > Perry Hoekstra > E-Commerce Architect > Talent Software Service > dutchman at mn.uswest.net > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gabe Turner | X-President, UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery U of M Supercomputing Institute for | Univerisity of Minnesota Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu "Hey Guedo! It's all so clear to me now. I am the keeper of the cheese, and you're the lemon merchant. Get it?" - Ren Hoek in "In the Army" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org