I've seen the same thing and could never figure it out... so I finally gave 
up and put a static IP assignment in the router that is handing out the 
addresses, which works in my application but is a bit of a hassle since I 
have to program the router with the MAC address of the Beaglebone.

Erik

On Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 9:42:41 AM UTC-7, Fohnbit wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I set in the /etc/network/interfaces:
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> auto eth0
>
> iface eth0 inet static
>         address 192.168.254.1
>         netmask 255.255.255.0
>         gateway 192.168.254.254
>
>
> But with ifconfig I get:
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr d0:39:72:2b:c7:5e
>           inet addr:192.168.254.101  Bcast:192.168.254.255  
> Mask:255.255.255.0
>           inet6 addr: fe80::d239:72ff:fe2b:c75e/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:50257 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:4695 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:3279596 (3.1 MiB)  TX bytes:374778 (365.9 KiB)
>           Interrupt:40
>
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
>           RX packets:628 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:628 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:37651 (36.7 KiB)  TX bytes:37651 (36.7 KiB)
>
>
> The 101 is from the DHCP.
>
> Has anyone an idea why the BBB use the DHCP somtimes?
> Guess when I boot 100times, it happens once
>
> Thank you!
>

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