setting up a docking stations ip address

The friendliest way to set up a static IP address for a mobile system is to determine the MAC address of the adapter, and create a static entry in your DHCP server's configuration associating the MAC address with the static address. That way the client machine can be set to "obtain an IP address automatically", but it'll always get the same one when it's on your network. And if it's moved to another environment/different DHCP server, it won't need to be reconfigured.

Jim

I thought so, but I had to give him the benifit of the doubt.
Thanks for the quick response.
--brett

You should be able to look up the MAC address with "ipconfig", or hopefully on a sticker attached to the NIC in the docking device. The DHCP client's part of the OS on the laptop, so the docking device has no independent smarts other than the interface electronics.

Jim

Impossible for a docking station to have a static IP Address unless you isolate that one connection on its own subnet.  The IP Address wil be dtermined by the unit docked to the station.

The only wat I know to do this would be to create a docked profile that would inlcude the static address you desire and when any machine to that particular station, it takes that address, but the station itself is incapable of holding an address with a laptop attached,...to the best of my knowledge.