Re: Two elementary questions on LANs

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Tim wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 16:27 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> It's as though there is a lease somewhere
>> and I have to wait for it to expire.
> 
> That's when you use commands like "dhclient -r" to try and get your
> client to release its current lease.
> 
> In the absence of being told to use some specific IP, a client will
> generally ask to use the same IP as it used last time.

I'm sure that is true.
But where does the machine keep the old IP?
I couldn't find it anywhere.

> Removing DHCP
> data on the client may stop this, causing the client to just as for an
> IP, not a specific one.  And removing DHCP data on the server may cause
> it to assign a different IP, so long as the server is randomly doling
> out IPs.  But if it has a fixed set of rules, than the server will try
> to give it the same IP.

Actually, I have solved my problems now.
The basic problem was that as far as I can see dhcp or dhcpd
was not running properly, if at all, on my Linksys router
(running the original Linksys software).

When I started running dhcpd on my server instead
(and stopped it on the router),
everything started to work as I expected,
and my laptop got its correct address at last.


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