>>>>> "Ravi" == Ravi Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ravi> On 12/30/05, Binand Sethumadhavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> DHCP allocations are controlled by lease times. Why would
>> anyone want to change an address allocated by DHCP, anyway?
>> Numerological considerations? :) If you really want to be able
>> to fiddle around with your client IP address, allocate a static
>> IP instead.
>>
>> Binand
Ravi> Binand, Not numerological considerations :) . But I was
Ravi> wondering if it was possible to do it. Just a thought. I dug
Ravi> around and I found a leases file in the location
Ravi> /var/run/dhclient.eth0.leases . Will it help if I delete the
Ravi> leases file ? I also found a dhclient.eth0.pid file in the
Ravi> same location.
Ravi> btw, this is my personal computer I am experimenting on. Is
Ravi> it not possible to get a fresh IP address from the ISP ?
What's probably happening is that you are setting the IP through
ifconfig and then the IP is going back to the DHCP IP after a while.
If that's the case, killall dhclient before you do anything else. If
dhclient keeps running in the background it'll periodically keep
getting a new IP from the provider.
Regards,
-- Raju
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