From owner-freebsd-net Tue Oct 23 9:24:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.intergate.ca (hermes.intergate.ca [207.34.179.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1B24937B401 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 09:24:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 63489 invoked by uid 1007); 23 Oct 2001 17:01:00 -0000 Received: from landons@uniserve.com by hermes.intergate.ca with qmail-scanner-0.93 (uvscan: v4.0.50/v4166. . Clean. Processed in 2.542945 secs); 23/10/2001 10:00:57 Received: from landons.vpp-office.uniserve.ca (HELO pirahna.uniserve.com) (216.113.198.10) by hermes.intergate.ca with SMTP; 23 Oct 2001 17:00:56 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011023092127.02e561c8@pop.uniserve.com> X-Sender: landons@pop.uniserve.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 09:24:30 -0700 To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org From: Landon Stewart Subject: My ISP dislikes my dhclient Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm using dhclient to obtain an IP address from my ISP. They claim that I am "hard coding" an IP because my IP doesn't seem to change. I know that dhclient keeps a database of past leases and attempts to renew the same IP whenever possible. Is there anyway I can direct my ISP to some documentation that would make them stop getting angry with me? Is it correct to say that dhclient simply ASKS for the same IP again and if their dhcp server says "yes you may have that IP again" then and only then will it be allowed or does dhclient attempt to steal the IP back in any way? (I don't think it does). --- Landon Stewart landons@uniserve.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message