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Ow Mun Heng wrote: |
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>Googling with "gentoo + dhclient.conf" and "dhcp + reject ip addreses" |
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>doesn't give me any good leads. |
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>I have a problem in which the DHCP server assigns a Bad IP address to |
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>me. (miss pings, long delays etc..) I have tried various means to get a |
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>new IP but it's not giving it to me since the DHCP has bonded it self to |
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>my PCMCIA NIC's MAC Addr. |
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>Short of waiting close 24 hours (and hoping that that address is not |
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>given back to me again!), is there any way to reject some IP addreses it |
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>provides to me? |
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>In addition to that, I know dhcpcd has a config file dhclient.conf but |
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>it seems to me that gentoo does not use it at all. So, I can't even |
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>reject the DHCP server. |
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>Help. |
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If you suspect that the problem is in dhcp you will have to use static |
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ip settings. Help on this topic is available in the gentoo installation |
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guide. Another possibility is to contact your network admin, which you |
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should do anyway when manually setting your ip. |
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