From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 25 23:20:55 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2792816A4CE for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 23:20:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www6.web2010.com (www6.web2010.com [216.157.5.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C28AE43D62 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 23:20:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from MLandman@face2interface.com) Received: from Delliver.face2interface.com (inoc202-203.veranet.net [216.238.202.203] (may be forged)) by www6.web2010.com (8.12.10/8.9.0) with ESMTP id j1PNKGjP003796; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 18:20:17 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <6.2.0.14.0.20050225181922.01ea9770@mail.face2interface.com> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.0.14 Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 18:20:31 -0500 To: Jonathan Chen From: Marty Landman In-Reply-To: <20050225222750.GA59300@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <6.2.0.14.0.20050225125247.02e6d948@mail.face2interface.com> <20050225222750.GA59300@osiris.chen.org.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ip addr changes on 5.3 but not on 4.8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 23:20:55 -0000 At 05:27 PM 2/25/2005, Jonathan Chen wrote: >On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 04:16:40PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > >[...] > > Here's the problem, hope the preceding is a good background to it. Find > > that the IP address for the 5.3 box gets changed on a fairly regular basis > > by (I guess) my xp gateway so that I then have to change the gateway hosts > > file, the 5.3 hosts file and 5.3 rc.conf file. > > > > The 4.8 box's IP addr has been stable. > > > > Any idea where I start to fix this? Would like the 5.3 box's IP addr to > > remain stable as well. > >This has nothing to do with the FreeBSD boxes, but rather a >configuration issue with your DHCP server. The DHCP server can be >configured so that it will always give the same IP for a particular >NIC. Talk to your admin about it. Yikes Jonathan, I /am/ the admin. {:/ Marty Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Search & Sort Easily: http://face2interface.com/Products/FormATable.shtml Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal