From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 26 04:52:54 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 D255A16A4CE for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 04:52:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85DAB43D46 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 04:52:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F018A5643E; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 17:52:52 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 17:52:52 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Marty Landman Message-ID: <20050226045252.GB60761@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <6.2.0.14.0.20050225125247.02e6d948@mail.face2interface.com> <20050225222750.GA59300@osiris.chen.org.nz> <6.2.0.14.0.20050225181922.01ea9770@mail.face2interface.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.0.20050225181922.01ea9770@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: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 04:52:54 -0000 On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 06:20:31PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > >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. {:/ Having never dealt with DHCP servers on Windows, I cannot give you too much advise about how to configure them. However, since you are the network admin, you could possibly switch to using a UNIX based DHCP server, eg ports/net/isc-dhcp3-server. There are a few examples in the sample config files that show how to allocate IP addresses based on MAC addresses of NICs, and the server works a charm with Windows machines as well. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door" - W.E. Channing