That's certainly something I can do, or I can give it a long lease period. After doing some more research it appears sometimes a bad network card can revert back to dynamic after a reboot.
I'm going to have to go into the office and try a whole bunch of things to get it to revert back again, then lock down the machine so nobody can change the IP. --- On Sat, 11/6/10, Paul McNett <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Paul McNett <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [NF] IP Changing on computer, don't get it. > To: [email protected] > Date: Saturday, November 6, 2010, 5:14 PM > On 11/6/10 2:10 PM, Michael Oke, II > wrote: > > He's talking about the computer not the router. > > > > That said, no there really isn't any way for it to be > changing on it's own. > > Somebody thinks that they know better and are > switching it, probably for an > > unknown reason. I would change the account type > to limited so that they > > can't just change it and wait for the phone call. > > I like leaving it to "get ip address automatically" but > then on my dhcp server (dhcp3 > on Linux) I set the ip address to give to specific machines > based on their MAC address. > > This allows giving static ip addresses to known machines, > and dynamic addresses (and > shorter leases) to unknown machines. > > Paul > > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: [email protected] > Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox > OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech > Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox > This message: > http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] > ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are > the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or > medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for > those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious. > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
