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On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 07:53 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: |
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> On 1/16/06, Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@×××.com> 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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> You need administrative control of the DHCP server, |
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Which I don't have. |
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> But the problems you describe sound like some other device on the |
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> network has the same address as your PC. |
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I think it's more like too much broadcast or problematic Switch/hub |
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etc?? I don't knwo |
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> You might try some network |
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> monitoring tools like tcpdump or ethereal to see what is going on. In |
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> particular, pay attention to ARP requests and responses. |
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I did. Nothing significant came up. |
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Ow Mun Heng |
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Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM |
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98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! |
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Neuromancer 09:19:35 up 23:22, 6 users, load average: 0.24, 0.66, 2.14 |
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