*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 5/2/2003 at 9:22 AM Gregory Gulik wrote: >I installed RH9 on a machine yesterday and specified a static IP address >(normally I use DHCP) yet it seemed to not do that. When I booted I >found the machine had obtained an IP address via DHCP. > >I had to go to the Network configuration tool, turn off DHCP there and >specified a static IP address and it's been fine since. > > > >Shane C Branch wrote: >> My IP address appears to be randomly changing. If I were running DHCP, >this >> would not be unexpected, however, eth0 is set with a statically assigned >IP >> address. I have checked the >/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/devices/ifcfg-eth0 >> files, as well as the corresponding /etc/sysconfig/networking/ files. >All files >> report the correct entries for IP address, gateway, DNS, subnet, and so >on. >> However, when I run ifconfig eth0 the reported address is 9.37.a.b. The >> assigned address is 9.37.c.d. If I run nslookup on an MS box, the DNS >server >> responds with the correct combination of IP and host name. This leads me >to >> conclude that there is an incorrect setting with my linux box >networking, but I >> don't know where else to look. >> >> Has anyone else seen this? >> >> regards, >> >> shane. >> >> >> > >-- >Greg Gulik http://www.gulik.org/greg/ >greg @ gulik.org > > > > >-- >Shrike-list mailing list >Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list I examined the system logs and it looks like the machine is sending a DHCP request from eth0. I checked the network config tool as well, and DHCP is turned off there. regards, shane.
