From owner-freebsd-net Fri Mar 23 5:13:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.hub.org (mobile.acadiau.ca [131.162.137.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3C2137B71A; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 05:13:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by mobile.hub.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2NCtEs89408; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 08:55:14 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: mobile.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 08:55:14 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Matthew Emmerton Cc: , Subject: Re: dhclient not setting IP ... In-Reply-To: <001801c0b33c$f06ae1c0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > I'm connected through cable to the 'Net, and the provider I go > > through, it appears, somehow has it setup that if I change nics, I hvae a > > bugger of a time re-acquiring a lease ... > > I presume dhclient is what you use to get your IP address. > > I've seen ISPs that record the MAC address of the interface, and won't give > out addresses to any other MAC address but the original one. They'll expire > that MAC eventually, but perhaps not for 24 hours or a week. this is what it appears it was ... called up their tech support last night, the girl there said "we dont' support Unix", I asked her to release the IP and low-n-behold, I got a new one ... Thanks ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message