IP address oddity

[Joshua Bergland]

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By default, a machine using DHCP will request permission to keep its
same IP address, which they are doing in this case (the previous one
given is stored somewhere...) This is usually good behavior and prevents
the machine from always getting a different address. You need to make
the machine release its current settings and request a new one. Its
weird the the server isn't catching this, and assigning new IP addresses
when it gets another request from a different MAC while the address is
still leases. I am not sure excatly how to do this in Linux, but I find
the DHCP-Howto to be helpful.
 
Josh
 
Don Erickson wrote:
 
|In article <20020309150118.42382.qmail at web14607.mail.yahoo.com> you write:
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|>I installed several boxes from a ghost image (Norton Ghost 2002)
|>of RedHat 7.2. All are configured to get IP addressing through
|>DHCP. All are successful at eht0 configuration, but ALL come up
|>with THE SAME IP ADDRESS (10.1.2.69), AND
|>all are able to connect to the network and internet..at least
|>one at a time.   
|>
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|So...what happens if a second machine connects to the network after the
|first one is connected?  Does it get a different IP address?  If so, then
|everything is working, right?  The dhcpd usually has a range of
|addresses to assign, the first free address is usually assigned in my
|experience.    
|
|Regards,
|
|-Don
|
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