[NCLUG] Teaching dhclient to lie.

[John Gilmore]

Since it's not my router, I'm not going to complain to loudly. It's actually
OpenWRT-compatible, and it's completely open. Even the admin password is
"admin". But the standard firmware doesn't support assigning ip's by MAC.

In any case, this solution works and is implemented. And it's a fairly
simple solution, really. I could see it not working on for all wireless
routers (some may have security measures which refuse packets with an
address they didn't assign) but it works on this one. But will renewing an
address still work "properly"? Will some common application that I haven't
tried yet but my wife will want to use every day barf?

In other news ati/fglrx are giving me fits. I finally found an old version
of fglrx that supports my card (support was dropped in versions after 9.2)
but it fought with compiz and screensavers. So I'm reverting to the
open-source "radeon" driver. But it's slow as crap (<5 minutes to display
the screen?), and crashing, bad artifacts, etc. Must have blobs of fglrx
left somewhere. Hope I don't have to reinstall...

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Brian Wood <bwood at beww.org> wrote:

> On Friday, October 08, 2010 12:27:36 pm John Gilmore wrote:
> > I recently got three laptops, and want them all to have static IP
> addresses
> > on my home wireless. Unfortunately, the router doesn't support
> dynamically
> > assigning static IP's. Also, I want to keep networkmanager running so
> that
> > my wife can easily connect to wifi wherever she goes using the
> handy-dandy
> > little gnome widget.
>
> If it were me I'd get a router that will allow assigning specific IPs based
> on the MAC address. OpenWRT or Tomato(e) can do
> it, as can many others.
>
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