On Sun, July 18, 2010 20:54, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: > On 18/07/10 12:04, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >>> An alternative, if you have some control over the DHCP server, might be >>> to enforce a mapping of MAC addresses to IPs. You can pretty much set >>> you guest MAC addresses to whatever you want so long as they don't >>> conflict with anything else. >> >> In the long run, they'll be static; but at the moment the permanent IPs >> haven't been assigned, and I'm just letting them pick something up via >> corporate DHCP (to avoid conflicting with anything else on the network). >> It's at this early experimental stage that it'd be handy to find out >> externally what they ended up being. > > As a quick hack, while you experiment, you could just get the guest to > send you an email on boot with its current IP. Say, by putting the > following at the end of your /etc/rc.local > > /sbin/ip ad | /bin/mailx -s "IP details for `hostname`" <emailaddr> Good hack, should have thought of that! Thanks. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info