Reserved static ip based on mac address using GS748T switch

Hi DaneA,

Thanks so much for your response.

I found another way to solve the problem.

I set a static ip on the workstation. I didn't set the mac address on the switch. Although the ip is not set on the port, every time I plug in the workstation, it picks up the same ip it was set before. I'm tring to make a computer cluster by linking several compute nodes through the switch.

So I set static ip addresses on the compute nodes (workstations). They can easily communicate to one another via the switch; although the switch is connected to a DHCP server.

I also have a head node which is connected to the switch using two ports, eth0 and eth1. On eth0, I've used DHCP, and on eth1, I set a static ip on the head node. So I can now ssh from outside of network to the head node through the switch, and the head node itself is connected to the compute nodes through the static ip addresses. The computer clusters works great as of now.

I will try your way though, and let you know if that works.

Thanks so much.