I would agree to some extent that the cable company can change IP
addresses. However, in defense of Mediaone, I have had 2 IP address changes
in almost 4 years. The first was because Mediaone was renumbering the local
area, the second was when I changed NICs.
I had some problems with earlier versions of DHCLIENT under propr versions
SuSE. My solution was to edit the /var/state/dhcp/dhclient.leases. This is
updated when dhclient runs. I found that dhclient was rejecting the olffer
from the M1X dhcp server. Since the IP address had not changed, I just
updated the dates and things ran ok. I have had no trouble with with
dhclient running on SuSE 6.4
Derek Martin wrote:
> Yes... er, which is to say that your DHCP lease can expire, at which point
> your dhcp client should renew it. One problem that can occur though is
> that your ISP may change the IP address prior to your lease expiring.
> Then your system will think it has a valid lease, but the DHCP server (and
> whatever magic equipment your ISP has between you and them) will not
> recognize you as the valid holder of that address. Result: you need to
> restart networking, to get your new IP address.
>
> Depending on where you live, MediaHun does this all the time. I've had 6
> IP addresses in 10 months. Others typically have been much more stable.
>
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