Re: DHCPCD and Static IP's

thomasz@hostmaster.org
Tue, 15 Dec 1998 09:49:53 +0100

> Well, my University's DHCP server attempts to hand out static IP's based on
> MAC address (not foolproof however, I have gotten several other IP's now and
> then)... but it gets that message every once in a while, with no obvious reason
> why..... If you get any ideas, I could try to test them for you some time....
> (at least client side). But DHCP works flawlessly in all Windows boxes on the
> network, so most likely dhcpcd trips up on some sort of data that the server is
> handing out, or does something odd so that the server doesn't always like the
> message....

I think the Windows clients just behave as everything in Windows:
If something goes wrong try again and resume next...

Maybe dhcpcd should also try several times...solved this via a shell script.

Thomas

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