From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 18 15:13:40 2002 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 8775D37B400 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 15:13:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay03.cablecom.net (relay03.cablecom.net [62.2.33.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CE9543E31 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 15:13:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com) Received: from gicco.cablecom.ch (dclient217-162-156-181.hispeed.ch [217.162.156.181]) by relay03.cablecom.net (8.11.6/8.11.4/SOL/AWF/MXRELAY/06072001) with ESMTP id g6IMDa948327 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 00:13:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from idefix@localhost) by gicco.cablecom.ch (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g6IMDa226421 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 00:13:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 00:13:36 +0200 From: Hanspeter Roth To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DHCLIENT problem Message-ID: <20020719001336.A26363@gicco.cablecom.ch> Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from barbish@a1poweruser.com on Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 05:20:14PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Jul 18 at 17:20, Joe & Fhe Barbish spoke: > Ifconfig -a on the NIC device connected to the cable model gives > inet 68.65.175.62 broadcast 68.65.175.255 > > Every morning I have these 2 console messages > 'DHCLIENT: New Network number : 68.65.175.0' > 'DHCLIENT: New Broadcast address : 68.65.175.255' > > When I issue the ifconfig command in the morning after getting those > two messages, I still get inet 68.65.175.62 broadcast 68.65.175.255. > > > I thought the 'DHCLIENT: New Network number : 68.65.175.0' message is > telling me that my public ip address has been changed from > 68.65.175.62 to 68.65.175.0 The network number is not the individual IP address of your host. Your IP address is 68.65.175.62. The DHCLIENT tries to get the same address it hat last time. The dhcp server might supply the same one if it's still free. 68.65.175.0 is the address of your host's subnet. -Hanspeter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message