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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
