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Hi all, |
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I can remember in the distant past that I had to have my modem turned |
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on before the computer otherwise, I wouldn't get an IP address. Then |
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something changed. One day I forgot to turn on the modem first. I turned |
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the machine on then realised the modem wasn't on, I turned it, the |
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modem, on and prepared to reboot the machine only to see an IP address |
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appear. |
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It appeared that dhcp was now periodically attempting to get an address |
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whereas in the past, if on boot it didn't find one, that was it, it just |
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gave up. It appears that my machine has now, for some reason reverted to |
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"the olden days" of IP address allocation. No modem at boot, no IP |
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address. Reboot the machine, with the modem continuing to run, and I get |
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an IP address. When I have no IP address, I can run "dhcpcd restart" and |
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I'll get one. |
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Anyone got any idea as to what has changed? What should I be looking |
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for to fiddle to get my preferred behaviour, modem/machine startup in |
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any order and I'll get an IP address. Is there a dchp "polling time" or |
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something similar that I need to set to get this running nicely again? |
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Thoughts greatly appreciated, |
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Andrew |