On 06/17/2011 04:03 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Tim wrote: > >> On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 16:27 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: >>> It's as though there is a lease somewhere >>> and I have to wait for it to expire. >> That's when you use commands like "dhclient -r" to try and get your >> client to release its current lease. >> >> In the absence of being told to use some specific IP, a client will >> generally ask to use the same IP as it used last time. > I'm sure that is true. > But where does the machine keep the old IP? > I couldn't find it anywhere. That information is kept in the lease information and is why I've been trying to elicit explicit information with explicit question. The "old" IP information is actually kept by the CLIENT and the SERVER...... Let us take my system as an example.... My LAN interface is p2p1.... It has an ifcfg-p2p1 containing.... among other things, the following.... DEVICE="p2p1" ONBOOT=yes NM_CONTROLLED="yes" TYPE=Ethernet BOOTPROTO=dhcp UUID=b92aa237-1b70-4a2b-9bbb-da15a3f0e599 Then in /var/lib/dhclient/ there is a file called dhclient-b92aa237-1b70-4a2b-9bbb-da15a3f0e599-p2p1.lease This file contains the information the dchcp server supplied when the system "broadcast" a dhcp request. Among other things it contains.... renew 4 2011/06/16 21:07:47; rebind 5 2011/06/17 08:11:13; expire 5 2011/06/17 11:11:13; It also contains the IP address that was assigned. When the lease time expires the dhcp client will send a renewal request to the server and ask for the same IP address to be assigned. I'd have to check to see if it is a direct request or not. But it is 5AM and I can't see the book I need to reference. Now, I really want to know what interface you want to concentrate on..... Is it your wired LAN, eth1...or your wireless wlan0? You've confused me by talking about both. >> Removing DHCP >> data on the client may stop this, causing the client to just as for an >> IP, not a specific one. And removing DHCP data on the server may cause >> it to assign a different IP, so long as the server is randomly doling >> out IPs. But if it has a fixed set of rules, than the server will try >> to give it the same IP. > Actually, I have solved my problems now. > The basic problem was that as far as I can see dhcp or dhcpd > was not running properly, if at all, on my Linksys router > (running the original Linksys software). > > When I started running dhcpd on my server instead > (and stopped it on the router), > everything started to work as I expected, > and my laptop got its correct address at last. > > Another key bit of information would have been in the file in /var/lib/dhclient. That would have told you where the client was getting its lease. option dhcp-server-identifier tells you that. >From what you've said, I think I would be a bit concerned..... Do you have 2 dhcp servers on the same subnet? That isn't a good idea. DHCP is a broadcast protocol. At the very start a client will send out a broadcast message saying "I need an IP address, can anyone give me one to use?". If there are 2 DHCP servers on the subnet, they both will answer. The client will take the information from the first one that responds. If, at another time, the client asks again in a broadcast and the other server responds you may get some very weird results. -- 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
