Re: dhclient assigns new IP address every time

From: Adam Mercer (ramercer_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/10/05

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    Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 22:35:23 +0000
To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>

    On 10/11/05, kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> wrote:
    > My computer is behind a router (linksys BEFSR41). The computer and the
    > router are connected by ethernet cable (ie no wireless). Every time I
    > run, 'sudo dhclient', the IP address assigned to the computer is
    > different. For example, sometimes I get 192.168.1.101, 192.168.1.100,
    > 192.168.1.102 etc., Is there any way to always get the same IP address
    > assigned when I run dhclient? If dhclient cannot do this, are there any
    > other alternatives?

    I have a Netgear WGT624v2 and there is an option on the routers config
    page to always hand out the same ip address to a specific host based
    on the MAC address. Have a look on your routers config page, theres
    probably a similar option somewhere.

    Cheers

    Adam

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