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On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 12:01 +0100, Matthias Bethke wrote: |
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> Hi Ow, |
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> on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 13:22:06, you wrote: |
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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..) |
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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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> you have a DHCP server you don't control (@work?) |
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Yes. |
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> and it's not giving |
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> you the IP you want but something else---"abd" in what way? |
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it's giving me an IP, just not a good One. (upstream connection is bad) |
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> And it |
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> remembers your PCMCIA card's MAC address... |
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That's the DHCP lease. |
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> so you have another port in |
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> your laptop and want to use that instead? |
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No. I would like to get another IP which is not the problematic one. |
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> I'd think if the DHCP server gives you an andress that doesn't work in |
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> your subnet then it's a server configuration issue and should be fixed |
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> there. |
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yeah.. Unfortunately, I have no administrative control over it. :-( |
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