ubuntu 7.10 install

[ted leslie]

correct, if your router is the gateway, it receives the IP address from the cable ISP,
the machine behind it, they can be static or DHCP, but the DHCP will come from your router.

the router is usually pretty good about remembering the MAC address and reassigning
the same IP to it next time, i.e. you can be some what assured that the 
puters in the home keep the same address they get from your routers DHCP,
if they get turned off, etc.

to be really safe you can just assign static to the puters in your house.

so really you can go either way provided your home gateway router is set to 
act as a DHCP server too.

if you don't want to go in and configure your router, you might want to 
go DHCP on the ubuntu install, because most home gateways, i think,
are configed to be dhcp servers by default.

-tl

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:54:54 -0500
chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org wrote:

> I'm going to re-install ubuntu. I've so thoroughly pooched my system that a 
> re-install is needed. For instance I can't even get into the system as 
> regular user. The worst is having to use webmail (instead of thunderbird) 
> for troubleshooting help. 
> 
> Before I get started I thought I'd clear up something. When configuring IP 
> address should I choose dhcp, static or what? I have cable Internet access. 
> I just want to make sure that other computers in our home will be able to 
> print across the network to the printer attached to this machine. Also, I 
> use scp across the network for backups. I've made this more complicated in 
> the past than it should be so I thought I'd ask before I do this. I've cosen 
> dhcp in the past thiking that means I'm saying yes to my isp assigning me an 
> ip address via dhcp. Apparently that is not how it works. THe isp only gives 
> an ip address to my router and then the router gives me a local address? If 
> so, what do I answer when asked about things-network while installing 
> ubuntu? 
> 
> I'm not really looking forward to this - the biggest thing is setting up 
> raid again - looks like I did it okay last time (my first time) but now I'm 
> going to have to re-learn the concepts. 
> 
> Chris
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