Re: loosing wireless connection...
From: Alex de Kruijff (freebsd_at_akruijff.dds.nl)
Date: 11/30/03
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Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 02:30:30 +0100 To: "Brett L. Brown" <brett-brown@earthlink.net>
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 03:07:27PM +0000, Brett L. Brown wrote:
> I'm running FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on a Dell Latitude c600. The laptop is
> continuously powered on. When I close my laptop I lose my dhcp lease. I would
> prefer the behavior of not ever loosing my dhcp lease when I close my screen.
> If I can't have this what is a quick way to request another lease without
> having to loose my login session or rebooting. Currently I have to leave my
> screen open or if my wife closes it for me I have to reboot. :(
>
> brett
That depend what you using for a DHCP server. If you use isc-dhcpd then
you can configure it to bind an IP to your MAC address. I can't give you
an example. I think one exist in in the manual. You could also just use
a static IP as an alternitive.
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