Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 12:11 +0000, Mattias Merilai wrote:
> Ow Mun Heng wrote:
>
> >Googling with "gentoo + dhclient.conf" and "dhcp + reject ip addreses"
> >doesn't give me any good leads.
> >
> >I have a problem in which the DHCP server assigns a Bad IP address to
> >me. (miss pings, long delays etc..)  I have tried various means to get a
> >new IP but it's not giving it to me since the DHCP has bonded it self to
> >my PCMCIA NIC's MAC Addr.
> >
> >Short of waiting close 24 hours (and hoping that that address is not
> >given back to me again!), is there any way to reject some IP addreses it
> >provides to me?
> >
> >In addition to that, I know dhcpcd has a config file dhclient.conf but
> >it seems to me that gentoo does not use it at all. So, I can't even
> >reject the DHCP server.
> >
> >Help.
> >
> >
> >
> If you suspect that the problem is in dhcp you will have to use static
> ip settings. Help on this topic is  available in the gentoo installation
> guide. Another possibility is to contact your network admin, which you
> should do anyway when manually setting your ip.

I believe it's a network router issue or something, but I would still
like to get a dynamic IP address, just _not_ the one it's giving me
which is problematic.
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