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

[Henner Zeller]

On 27 October 2014 11:52, Casey Callendrello <c1 at caseyc.net> wrote:
> 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.

Yes, the network jack is there, but the Pi is not plugged in yet. So
someone physically in the space
has to add an ethernet cable.

(To be sure: If anyone is doing that: plug into the Pi, _not_ in the
array of four RJ45 receptacles)
(Casey: when you configure it, please make sure to change the password
from the default PI password)

-h

>
> --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.
>