Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] losing network IP address
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 15:16:59
Message-Id: ed360776-3fee-e292-5a1a-35d6d32d3317@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] losing network IP address by thelma@sys-concept.com
1 On 21/03/2017 14:59, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
2 >
3 > One of my boxes (one with two network ports) is losing network IP address.
4 > The /etc/conf.d/net is empty and the system should obtain static IP via
5 > dhcp 10.10.0.7
6 > Sometimes it does, the IP stays for a several days but sometimes it
7 > boots with correct IP and the IP changes after few hours to something
8 > like 192.168.xxx (which is not what my firewall provides.)
9 >
10 > I connected the box via two different cables in in a remote location and
11 > behaviour is the same. Sometimes the IP can stay for few days or few
12 > hours but the box is losing the IP address.
13 > This is the only box that is giving me a problem.
14 >
15 > How to trouble shoot it?
16 > I brought the small box and connected to my home network but I can not
17 > repeat the behaviour.
18 >
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20
21 The solution is in your logs.
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24 Alan McKinnon
25 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com