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. > 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. -- 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
