Jim Radford wrote:
This is an issue with network management.On Wednesday 17 Mar 2004 6:58 pm, Jim Radford wrote:
Well, I solved this problem today. I turns out one of the other machines on
my work network had decided to start DHCP'ing for it's IP after a recent
power-cut the office suffered. It was stealing my IP :(
Thinking about this - why did nothing appear in messages to show it was losing it's IP?
Does it get logged somewhere else?
Static IPs should be in a range outside the DHCP served IPs. If yours is static and the other is DHCP that should be fixed.
If both were DHCP assigned then the server is having a problem ( may be timing out the lease too soon) or is handing out the same IP to different machines at the same time. :-(
Also recently noted on this list, in the network config scripts ( /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 ) it is possible to assign a (specified) MAC address for your adapter that may not be its physical address.
If different machines are using the same MAC address they will conflict and compete since the DHCP server keeps track of the MAC/IP pairs.
