In article <[log in to unmask]>,
[log in to unmask] (Chris Carman) wrote:
 
>In article <[log in to unmask]>,
[log in to unmask] (Micah James Cooper) writes:
>> The IP numbers are static enough you could probably get away with putting
>> a web server on your machine and making your VAX page refer to it.  Just
>> don't leave it off for over 24 hours ;)  (or, write a little script that
>
>So if I restart my computer now, it'll have the same IP address?  Hmmm..
 
I already corrected Chris's mistake by email, but just so no one else gets
the wrong idea...
 
*NO*!  This is *not* the case.  There is absolutely nothing stopping the
DHCP server from giving out a perfectly free address to a client, even if
that address wasn't perfectly free just 10 seconds ago.  Your address is
*not* static.
 
Now, with that in mind, if you leave your computer on all the time (and
for Open Transport users, if you have "Load only when needed" unchecked in
the TCP/IP Control Panel), you're probably going to keep the same IP
address.  Just don't shut down.
 
Clayton L. Hines
 
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