Ed Greshko wrote: >>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 addressg >>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. >> > > Your system is getting its IP address from your dhcp SERVER on you lan, as > I said. Your system is a CLIENT. So you think the Linksys router remembered the old address, 192.168.1.7, of my laptop, and gave it out despite the fact that its local IP address is 192.168.2.1 ? I think if it was giving out an address it would be in the range 100-149, which is the range it says it offers. (I'm running the standard Linksys software, and there doesn't seem to be any way of registering address on it, as in /etc/dhcpd.conf .) > Now you seem to be mixing things up a bit. In your original post you > talked about ifcfg-eth0. Now you talk about wlan0. Which interface are > you talking about? I was actually discussing two different machines. On my CentOS desktop this LAN is on the interface eth1, and is connected by ethernet to the router; on my Fedora laptop it is wlan0, connecting by WiFi. > What is the bootproto for eth0? And isn't that the interface whose IP > address you want to change? I'm not quite sure what you mean. As I said I have BOOTPROTO=dhcp on my laptop, which I agree should mean it gets its IP address from the router. But it doesn't seem to be doing that. My experience is that if I wait several hours and constantly re-boot my laptop, it will in the end get a new IP address in the 192.168.2.100-149 range. It seems there is some kind of inertia about changing IP addresses. It's as though there is a lease somewhere and I have to wait for it to expire. Maybe people don't often try to change the address of a machine, and so the issue doesn't often arise? -- 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
