On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:43:59AM -0400, Mark Haney wrote: > On 08/30/2012 10:36 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I have a weird problem; at my office every time I try to connect to my > >wall outlet, my laptop gets assigned an internal IP (192.168.0.114) and > >I cannot access the internet. However everything works as expected when > >I use any other wall outlets. To add to this, when other laptops > >connect to my wall outlet, they work properly. > > > >This is a dump of my network connection (with DHCP enabled): > ><http://pastebin.com/7bsXDMBP>. And the relevant bits from > >/var/log/messages (when I get assigned the wrong IP): > ><http://pastebin.com/9eZTprqk> > > What is the IP subnet that DHCP hands out? Is it on a different subnet from > 192.168.0.x? > My understanding of networks is next to nothing; by subnet do you mean the netmask field as reported by ifconfig? If so I have quoted that below: eth2: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.0.114 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 inet6 fe80::f2de:f1ff:fe37:c76c prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link> ether f0:de:f1:37:c7:6c txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 1465427 bytes 2094516052 (1.9 GiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 717576 bytes 56236036 (53.6 MiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 device interrupt 20 memory 0xf2500000-f2520000 > Sounds almost like the MAC address of your laptop has been assigned an IP > from the DHCP server. Why that keeps from getting internet access depends > on the subnet question above, methinks. > -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
