Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 11:27:50 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Marty Landman <MLandman@face2interface.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ip addr changes on 5.3 but not on 4.8 Message-ID: <20050225222750.GA59300@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.0.20050225125247.02e6d948@mail.face2interface.com> References: <6.2.0.14.0.20050225125247.02e6d948@mail.face2interface.com>
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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 <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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