On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Michael Havens <[email protected]> wrote:
> uh-ohhhhh. I installed lynx with no problems. Then I unpacked gpm, ran cd > into the gpm directory, and then the terminal froze. I couldn't <enter> nor > ^C. I shut the terminal down and then started another one and now I can't > ssh into the lfs box. > What in the world! I just restarted the lfs box and then ran 'ip addr > show' and it says the ip address isn't what it was. It was 192.168.0.14 but > now it is 169.254.11.37/16 . > Two questions, > Why did it change from one private address to another. > I'm thinking I'm going to need to start over from the beginning; is that > so? > Well, I guess three questions: > How could I ssh into this network or else reassign the ip to something in > the 192.168.x.y range > I restarted it again and 'ip addr show' said it didn't have an ip address. I then restarted it again and it gave me the desired IP. How strange! How do I I refresh the ip address so I do not need to reboot the computer if this happens again? I would think it might be 'ip addr renew' or something like that but the man page for 'ip' doesn't indicate that.
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