Re: Dynamic IP...

["Todd T. Fries" <todd@fries.net>]

dhcpd will only re-assign you a new ip if all available ip's are used
and it's had to re-assign your ip to another machine while you're not
on the network ..

Penned by Saad Kadhi (Home Tech Accnt) on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 08:31:07AM +0100, we have:
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| Doktor Faustus wrote:
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| > The dynamic IP assigned to one of my ethernet interfaces is not changing
| > when its lease expires.  Is something else required other than the default
| > DHCP setup during the initial installation?  /var/db/dhclient.leases reveals
| > that when the lease expires, the exact same IP is assigned as a
| > "fixed-address".  I am using the default /etc/dhclient.conf file and have
| > not added "fixed-address [ip address]" statement to it.  What am I missing
| > or doing wrong?
| Maybe this is the way it is supposed to be .... I am too using dhcp & my 
| IP address is never changed when my machine is online.
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| I'm no dhcp expert but I think that the client is designed in such a way 
| that when the lease is due to expire, it talks with the dhcp server to 
| "refresh" the lease. Otherwise, suppose you are downloading a big file. 
| If your dhcp address change meanwhile, you have to restart over your 
| download :) ...
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| My thought-0.1beta
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