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Special Forums IP Networking DHCP and unix/linux Post 34083 by norsk hedensk on Monday 3rd of February 2003 04:54:59 PM
Old 02-03-2003
im not sure what you mean by "fool" the computers into thinking that they have a static IP address, they either have one assigned to them or they dont. assigning static IPs to the computers isnt hard at all. different distrobutions and varients of unix each do things a little differently in regards to how networking is set up at boot time, some will recognize files in the /etc/ directory to set up the default gateway and ip address. most will look at /etc/resolv.conf for your dns servers. if you dont know exaclty how your system does things and dont really feel like looking around to find out, you could always write a simple script to be executed at boot that sets everything up, and that would be done with ifconfig. depending on your distro, configuring the system to use DHCP can be as simple as creating an empy file called dhclient.conf in the /etc/ directory. see the man pages on ifconfig for more info about assigning an IP address to an NIC, aswell as setting the default gateway. hope that helps.
 

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ctrlaltdel

CTRLALTDEL(8)						       System Administration						     CTRLALTDEL(8)

NAME

       ctrlaltdel - set the function of the Ctrl-Alt-Del combination

SYNOPSIS

       ctrlaltdel hard|soft

DESCRIPTION

       Based  on examination of the linux/kernel/sys.c code, it is clear that there are two supported functions that the Ctrl-Alt-Del sequence can
       perform: a hard reset, which immediately reboots the computer without calling sync(2) and without any other preparation; and a soft  reset,
       which sends the SIGINT (interrupt) signal to the init process (this is always the process with PID 1).  If this option is used, the init(8)
       program must support this feature.  Since there are now several init(8) programs in the Linux community, please consult	the  documentation
       for the version that you are currently using.

       ctrlaltdel is usually used in the /etc/rc.local file.

FILES

       /etc/rc.local

SEE ALSO

       simpleinit(8), init(8)

AUTHOR

       Peter Orbaek (poe@daimi.aau.dk)

AVAILABILITY

       The ctrlaltdel command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

util-linux							   October 1993 						     CTRLALTDEL(8)
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