I'm a newbie, so i cannot help you understand it. i just talk about some experience. if the pc use static ip, the router should not provide dhcp service to keep consistent. i once used a dhcp router and a static configured network card, it doesn't work.
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Mario Spinthiras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I recently setup a server which I had originally assigned a DHCP > address from the interfaces file using the line "iface eth0 inet dhcp" > . After I had put the machine on the rack I simply changed the > addressing to static and restarted the networking. This all went well > for a while. Today the machine had lost its power feed and as a result > the machine was offline for a while. > When the machine came back up (power) , it got an address by DHCP > though the settings in the interfaces file said static with all > relevant addressing. This is not something new to me , I have dealt > with Linux machines for almost 10 years now. I just cannot seem to > understand why it did this. Checking the interfaces file again , the > only thing I had seemed to forget is the broadcast 192.168.100.0 > directive which denotes the network number and nothing more. > > I have played with the way ifup parses this file and cannot seem to > derive a bug of somekind. Here is a thought though. I believe the > previously retrieved address from DHCP is cached somewhere (though Ive > searched high and low for it) and when "something" triggers the > parsing error , it goes back to that DHCP previously assigned address. > Can I have your thoughts on this? Its extremely strange behavior and I > cannot understand how a broadcast directive that was missing would > cause this problem. Note that the addressing that is static and the > DHCP assigned address are both in the same subnet. Is there a force > feature of somekind that tells it to go DHCP in a certain "case" ? > > Possible ifupdown bug? > > -- > Warm Regards, > Mario A. Spinthiras > Blog: http://www.spinthiras.net > Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Skype: smario125 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- ----------------------------------------- Buddha Debian GNU/Linux MSN/aMSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------
