D'oh!

[James Knott]

chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org wrote:
> James Knott writes:
> <snip>
>> I assume you're using DHCP.  Is there any reason you can't assign a 
>> dedicated IP address to that computer's MAC address?
> 
> Wouldn't that mean I can't have a LAN address as well? We have on 
> eprinter attached to one computer and the other three computers need to 
> print to it.

Judging from the other messages, it's hard to see what it is you want. 
I assume you want both a local lan address as well as one assigned by an 
ISP.  Is that correct?  If so, you need 2 addresses, the 2nd being an 
"alias".  IIRC, if you want both a static and DHCP address on a NIC, 
only the alias can have a DHCP address.  As someone else mentioned, you 
cannot have two addresses on the same subnet assigned to the NIC.  A 
little more detail about what precisely you're trying to do would help, 
instead of trying to guess what you're doing.

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