Re: Changing the DHCP address of a machine on my Local LAN

On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 15:22 -0600, Mikkel wrote:
On 03/06/2010 03:06 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:

I am not using my neighbors wireless. The machine is hard-wired to the
router but does not use the router as a DHCP server. It did until this
morning but now it does not. How does one change that behavior?

Check the configuration of the router. You can also try to reset the
router. Outside of giving the machine a static IP address, there is
not much you can do on the machine. This is NOT a problem with the
Linux machine - it is a router problem.

If you want to know why this is a router problem, find some good
documentation on how DHCP works. The machine making the request
responds to the first DHCP server that replies...

Mikkel

I agree with your analysis of the problem. But that leaves us with the
following mystery.. There are 4 machines on the LAN. Why does only the
one get a response from the providers DHCP server first? Also why this
only occurred this morning after using the routers DHCP server for 6
months?
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