On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 08:25:53PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:33:13AM +0000, Pigeon wrote: > > ...speaking of such things - if the remote machine gets a different > > IP, through DHCP, every time it boots, is there a more elegant way I > > can discover this IP than having the remote machine email me when it > > boots? > > You don't get a different IP every time you boot unless you boot once > after the IP release. Usually, you try to renew your lease halfway > through the lease to keep the possibility of it expiring when you > still need it to an absolute minimum, and doesn't get flushed back > into the released pool for usually twice the lease interval. If > you're wondering how DHCP identifies your machine to tell it's the > same: your NIC's MAC address.
I see. My above question sacrificed accuracy for conciseness: "cannot be guaranteed to get the same IP when it boots" would better describe the observed behaviour. Now I know why. Thanks. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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