Network autoconfiguration for headless box

[nhaggin]

Greetings, all.

I am almost done setting up a headless box intended for use as part of my portable recording rig. In the field, I intend to control it via a crossover cable to my laptop, and therein lies my question. I want to be able to autoconfigure the network interfaces on each end when I'm recording somewhere, but I don't want it to interfere with "normal" network operation, i.e., if I plug each machine into my home network, they should still grab IP addresses from my DHCP server.

Any suggestions? Did I miss something while reading the network subsystem documentation? Apologies if I didn't RTFM thouroughly enough first.
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Nick

A.M.D.G.

[Monkeh]

Set up a different runlevel on your laptop (for a fixed IP and starting a dhcp server), or set both to use fallback static addresses (so when DHCP times out, they get assigned addresses).

[nhaggin]

The second option sounds best to me; I'll give it a try. Thanks much.
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Nick

A.M.D.G.