Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/16/2011 07:00 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> 1) I was trying to change a LAN on my home-system >> from 192.168.1.0 to 192.168.2.0 >> but I found it surprisingly difficult for example >> to change my laptop from 192.168.1.7 to 192.168.2.7 . >> I made the change in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 >> and deleted all the files in /var/lib/dhclient with the old address. >> But when I re-booted the old address came up, >> as given by ifconfig and route (or ip route). >> I was running NetworkManager, but I didn't see >> the IP address specified in /etc/NetworkManager . >> I may say the laptop was WiFi connected to a LinkSys router running dhcp, >> but the Local IP Address in this had been changed to 192.168.2.1 . >> >> Who decides the IP address of a device? > > In your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 What is the BOOTPROTO ? > > If it is dhcp then the answer to your question is your dhcp "server". > > The files in /var/lib/dhclient contain the information of you lease that > is served up by the dhcp server. > > FWIW, that file would also contain dhcp-server-identifier which would > tell you what system issued the lease. Thanks for your response. I have BOOTPROTO=dhcp in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 . I just commented out the IPADDR=192.168.2.7 in this file, as well as NETMASK and GATEWAY, and re-booted, but my IP address remains 192.168.2.7 . In fact the route table has not changed. I ran "sudo grep -r 192.168.2.7 ..." on /etc/ and /var/lib/ on the laptop, and there was no match except for the lines I had commented out. There are no wlan0 files in /var/lib/dhclient/ , so the router does not seem to have sent anything. I looked in /var/log/messages and the first mention of the address after the reboot is avahi-daemon[749]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface wlan0.IPv4 with address 192.168.2.7. I see from "man avahi-daemon" that avahi-daemon does "register local IP addresses" so that may well be the source of my problems. But if avahi-daemon does save the address I don't see where it does so. It isn't in /etc/ or /var/ . As I said in my original post, if there is any online documentation dealing with this I would very much like to see it. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
