[gentoo-user] How to dhcp to a specific address, and thank you

[Alan E. Davis]

I hope I will be forgiven for wasting bandwidth; I want very much to express
my gratitude to those developers, documentation writers, and others, that
Gentoo is such an excellent distro.  If three is anything I can figure to
do---possible documentation or perhaps an ebuild or two---I want to do so.
For right now, let me send my thanks to all.  I cannot express my good
feelings well enough about the solidity of my new install.

I have gotten Gentoo running on a new machine (my fourth install, I think),
and it all went well---better than ever!  I am highly pleased...

I was even able to connect to a WPA encrypted network with minimal hassle,
using excellent instructions availalbe in the docs, forum, and wiki.  It
went more easily than a year ago.

My QUESTION: I connect two machines at home to a wireless router, with my IP
number a local one, assigned by the router.  Is it reasonable to set this up
so my main home machine has the same IP number always, so I can set up other
machines to print over the local wireless net?

ASIDE:  I can't speak too highly of the solidity of the install.  Maybe
partly because I now understand the Gentoo system better, I have not had to
ask many questions.  When something troubles, it is easier to figure out
why.  I don't want to bog down in a discussion of other distros and the
fiddling that led to nowhere; suffice it to say, Gentoo just works, for me,
as long as I am willing to put in the time, and my other efforts were less
satisfactory.

Thank you!

Alan Davis

-- 
Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan  lngndvs@×××××.com

"It's never a matter of liking or disliking ..."
       ---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man