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Xu Qiang <Qiang.Xu@fujixerox.com> writes:

> Lowell wrote:
> > Yes, you do.  A dhcp client is part of the base system.
> 
> But I assigned my machine a static ip address and netmask, and they never changed. I don't know how the machine detect the gateway ip address and DNS server ip address which i never assigned to it. :(

We don't either.  We do not have enough information.
Showing us your configuration files might help.

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