From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 25 22:27:52 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 9C41016A4CE for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 22:27:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E12C43D1F for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 22:27:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AC7E55643E; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 11:27:50 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 11:27:50 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Marty Landman Message-ID: <20050225222750.GA59300@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <6.2.0.14.0.20050225125247.02e6d948@mail.face2interface.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.0.20050225125247.02e6d948@mail.face2interface.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i 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 22:27:52 -0000 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. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "You can get farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone" - Al Capone