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From: Barely Audible on 5 Jul 2010 13:14 Everytime I restart my sus11.1 server it has a different ip number. Can anyone tell me how to find the ip number and make it permanent on that computer? Many thanks. -- TTFN Jim Freedom Is Not Free
From: Rikishi42 on 5 Jul 2010 13:30 On 2010-07-05, Barely Audible <anywhere(a)but.here> wrote: > Everytime I restart my sus11.1 server it has a different ip number. Can > anyone tell me how to find the ip number and make it permanent on that > computer? What server gives you the IP? Your own broadlband/ router ? If so, it might have the option to allways give the same IP to a machine with a given MAC. If it's a server you can't control, then fix it in Yast/Network Devices/Network settings. -- When in doubt, use brute force. -- Ken Thompson
From: David Bolt on 5 Jul 2010 13:47 On Monday 05 Jul 2010 18:14, while playing with a tin of spray paint, Barely Audible painted this mural: > Everytime I restart my sus11.1 server it has a different ip number. Can > anyone tell me how to find the ip number and make it permanent on that > computer? Assuming that it's getting the IP address from a DHCP server, where is that DHCP server? Is it your router that provides it? Do you connect using a cable modem and the address you get is assigned by your ISP? Do you have a DHCP server running on your network somewhere that is providing the addresses? Is the IP address something like: 10.x.x.x, 172.16-31.x.x or 192.168.x.x ? Once you let us know where the IP address assignments are being issued from, then we can tell you whether you can fix the IP address or not, and what to do to set it as a static IP address. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: www.distributed.net openSUSE 11.0 32b | | | openSUSE 11.3RC1 32b | openSUSE 11.1 64b | openSUSE 11.2 64b | TOS 4.02 | openSUSE 11.1 PPC | RISC OS 4.02 | RISC OS 3.11
From: David Bolt on 5 Jul 2010 14:22 On Monday 05 Jul 2010 18:30, while playing with a tin of spray paint, Rikishi42 painted this mural: > On 2010-07-05, Barely Audible <anywhere(a)but.here> wrote: >> Everytime I restart my sus11.1 server it has a different ip number. Can >> anyone tell me how to find the ip number and make it permanent on that >> computer? > > What server gives you the IP? Your own broadlband/ router ? > If so, it might have the option to allways give the same IP to a machine > with a given MAC. If it's his own router, it will most likely have a block of addresses to give out to other devices. Picking an unused one outside that block should work. > If it's a server you can't control, then fix it in Yast/Network > Devices/Network settings. That depends on whether the IP address is a private address, or one assigned by his ISP. If it's a private one, then he can fix it. If it's ISP assigned, no he can't. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: www.distributed.net openSUSE 11.0 32b | | | openSUSE 11.3RC1 32b | openSUSE 11.1 64b | openSUSE 11.2 64b | TOS 4.02 | openSUSE 11.1 PPC | RISC OS 4.02 | RISC OS 3.11
From: Maurice Batey on 5 Jul 2010 14:33
On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:22:41 +0100, David Bolt wrote: > If it's his own router, it will most likely have a block of addresses > to give out to other devices. Picking an unused one outside that block > should work. If there are several terminals on a LAN, there is a need to ensure each maintains the same IP address regardless of the order in which they are booted, otherwise the router is likely to allocate the first of a series to the first to be booted, which makes inter-LAN addressing difficult. (I fell into that trap, and escaped via the router (Netgear D834G) facility to allocate IP address according to the MAC address of a teminal's NIC (Network Interface Card), thus ensuring each terminal always has the same IP address, regardless of the order in which they were booted.) -- /\/\aurice (Replace "nomail.afraid" by "bcs" to reply by email) |