On 2/7/2011 11:38 AM, David Williams wrote:
> The problem that I have is that I travel everyweek and hook my laptop
> onto clients networks so DHCP is needed.
> That said, perhaps there is a way (I think there is) that I can force my
> DHCP server at home to always provide the same internal IP address to my
> laptop right, by specifying the MAC address or something?

Yes, all DHCP servers should have a way to reserve an IP by MAC address, 
and most will give the same MAC the same IP for some reasonable length 
of time anyway unless there is a big turnover with the lease expired. 
Anyway, if you just connect to the backuppc web interface from the 
laptop itself and request the backup, it will find you - and keep 
working at least until the IP changes.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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