[CentOS] Finding DHCP IP of guest system

Mon Jul 19 18:33:49 UTC 2010
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 7/19/2010 9:22 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>>
>>> 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).
<snip>>
>> Haven't really been following this thread, but why not set the guests
>> VMs up with 192.168 IPs, and let the host serve DHCP with masquerading to
>> them?
>
> Has anyone suggested arpwatch yet?  I think it can send you email when a
> new mac/ip appears on the network and would be useful even outside the
> context of virtual machines.

<kicks self> Good suggestion, Mike (he says, having just gotten an
arpwatch email....)

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