[Rack] Need a fixed IP and name for access control raspberry pi

[Casey Callendrello]

I can handle this, either in-person or remotely. I believe Patrick
already ran a network jack to the "access shelf". It should be pretty
simple. Just need the MAC address.

--Casey

On 10/27/14 11:50 AM, Henner Zeller wrote:
> Hi,
> The raspberry pi doing the access control (named 'earl', next in
> sequence after 'baron') needs to get on the network. It is already
> located above the door, but not yet plugged into the network, but that
> would be good for maintenance and hacking.
>
> I don't know anything about how to configure our router for fixed IP
> address in DHCP or if there is a nameserver running for internal
> hosts, so I need someone's help to get this sorted (if we don't have a
> namerver for maintenance-nightmare reasons we could just make the RPi
> AVAHI itself as earl.local or something).
>
> I'll be in the space for the meeting tomorrow, so if there will
> someone who could make that work with me, that would be great. If you
> want to do that beforehand, get in touch with me on slack.
>
> Thanks,
>   Henner.