Re: basic question about assigning ip address



Peter Horst wrote:
I have a Fedora machine I'm using as a home server, without a keyboard or monitor. I'd like to set it up such that upon rebooting it first checks to see if there is a DHCP server on the network, and if so, grabs an ip address from it. But if there isn't one, it assigns itself a static address. Is this doable?

Thank you.

Maybe this will help.

It looks like this is controlled by dhclient(1), though I'm
using a fixed IP, so I haven't tested. If a DHCP client has
connected to a server and obtained a lease, previously, it
should revert to the old lease (if it hasn't expired) when
it can't reach the server on reboot.

Old leases are maintained in /var/lib/dhclient and in
/var/lib/dhcp.

- DAW

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