VanLUG Email Archive
> On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Slava Voronin wrote:
>
> > I just got a confirmation that your IP address is not changing, though you
> > should double check.
>
> Well, don't count on that. I'm getting switched between a lot of
> addresses, and I'm starting to find out why. This morning I started
> logging bootp stuff with tcpdump and did some reboots on my dual-boot
> machine (NetBSD/Windows 98) and discovered that there are two DHCP
> servers out there (209.63.0.1 and 209.53.0.17--interestingly enough,
> both have the same MAC address from where I'm sitting) that return
> different answers to me. Worse yet, there are two A records for me
> in the DNS, one correct, and one an old IP address that I've not
> been given in some time.
>
> I am actially using rogers wave and IP addr Igot the same fot three mounth
even if I reboot. So, looks like under wave we have less trouble. I wonder if
anybody have experience to configure linux as DHCP client (I 've seen those
pacheges)
under debian.