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If you have some servers or other machines to which you want to assign static IP addresses, you can use /etc/hosts, but it's a bit of bother to edit /etc/hosts on each of the zillion PCs you'r...
In Windows, open Control Panel Networking, then open the Properties box for TCP/IP. Check "Obtain an IP address automatically."
It's just as easy in Linux; the only hard part is that e...
Install and configure dhcp. You can get the source tarball from http://www.isc.org. RPMs and Debian packages are also available; just look for packages named "dhcp." Configure client PCs to ...