Mldonkey too old? LowID?

[Zach]

If your router supports static dhcp,  that's the way to go.  It looks
for a particular mac address and lets you specify the ip address that
a host with that specific mac address will be assigned.  I have all
the hosts on my network receiving static assignments from the dhcp
server, even my tivo.  this allows you to have one place to go to to
manage configuration.  then when you learn about dhcp, you'll find
there's all kinds of stuff you can push out in a dhcp assignment.

make sure if you don't use dhcp, and instead use a static assignment
on the machine, don't pick an address out of the dhcp pool.  the pool
from which addresses can be dynamically assigned can be configured in
your router.  you don't want to statically assign 192.168.0.3 to a
computer then later you plug another computer into the network and it
accidentally leases the same address from dhcp.  having more that one
host on the same network with the same ip address causes lots of
problems.

On 2/5/06, Colin Brace <cb at lim.nl> wrote:
> On 2/5/06, Dave M G <martin at autotelic.com> wrote:
>
> >     How do I do that?
>
> gnome-network-preferences is probably the easiest way to configure a
> static IP. But if you are just getting started with Linux, I'd
> strongly advise against this, as it introduces additional
> complications.
>
> As a general rule, your router will always give the same IP number to
> a given network interface. Do you have more than one network card in
> your PC? This can sometimes cause your IP number to change. Otherwise,
> once you are connected, you should get one IP, ie 192.168.0.02, and
> that should be more or less permanent.
>
> Do try to get MLdonkey working with DHCP; it will spare you a lot of
> trouble. I have aMule running here and it works fine, high ID and all.
>
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