Re: basic question about assigning ip address

Peter Horst wrote on Sunday 30 September 2007:

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?

Yes, it's possible, but I agree with Jacques and Ed, that it is not
desirable. A server should use a static address. So much for an advise.

What you want is possible using dhclient hooks. Those are scripts called
by dhclient. Depending on the status dhclient provides to them they can
do anything a script can do. "man dhclient-script" is your friend.

I use those scripts on my notebook to setup IPv4LL addresses (local link
adresses, 169.254.0.0) if there is no DHCP server available. Together
with Avahi they make ad-hoc networks really easy.

I attach both dhclient-hooks as example how to use hooks. They both live
in /etc and should be executable.

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