[wplug] if dhcp fails..

[John Harrold]

so my advisor has a laptop with matlab installed. in order for the license
server to start, the network device 'eth0' needs to be up. this would seem
ok, we can just configure the device to have a static ip address and go.
the problem is that at home, hes on the private network 192.168.1.*, and at
school he's on 192.168.0.*. so he really needs to use dhcp to get his ip
address, and if he's not connected to a network, the device needs to
default to something. so is there a way to make the computer default to an
ip address if dhcp fails?

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