Re: ip addr changes on 5.3 but not on 4.8

2005-02-28 Thread wo_shi_big_stomach
you might try paging through dmesg | more to see if the system recognizes your interface on bootup. %dmesg | more | grep dc0 dc0: 82c169 PNIC 10/100BaseTX port 0x6800-0x68ff mem 0xe900-0xe9ff irq 11 at device 9.0 on pci0 miibus0: MII bus on dc0 dc0: Ethernet address:

Re: ip addr changes on 5.3 but not on 4.8

2005-02-27 Thread Marty Landman
At 10:47 PM 2/26/2005, wo_shi_big_stomach wrote: --- Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just can't help but notice that this is only a problem on my 5.3 box and not on the 4.8. you might try paging through dmesg | more to see if the system recognizes your interface on bootup. %dmesg |

Re: ip addr changes on 5.3 but not on 4.8

2005-02-27 Thread Marty Landman
At 11:32 PM 2/26/2005, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 09:06:41PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: I just can't help but notice that this is only a problem on my 5.3 box and not on the 4.8. AFAIK the config's are identical, although obviously I am still a newbie at this. As I said

Re: ip addr changes on 5.3 but not on 4.8

2005-02-27 Thread Eric F Crist
On Feb 26, 2005, at 8:06 PM, Marty Landman wrote: At 10:32 AM 2/26/2005, Eric F Crist wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 04:16:40PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: that the IP address for the 5.3 box gets changed on a fairly regular basis [snip] The 4.8 box's IP addr has been stable. The other thing you

Re: ip addr changes on 5.3 but not on 4.8

2005-02-27 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 11:46:47AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: [...] Ok, then the reason my DHCP server on my XP gateway would have to be discriminating between the boxes since it's consistently only happening to one box and not the other. Correct. It is possible to set up DHCP servers so

Re: ip addr changes on 5.3 but not on 4.8

2005-02-27 Thread Marty Landman
At 01:25 PM 2/27/2005, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 11:46:47AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: Ok, then the reason my DHCP server on my XP gateway would have to be discriminating between the boxes since it's consistently only happening to one box and not the other. Correct. It is

Re: ip addr changes on 5.3 but not on 4.8

2005-02-26 Thread Eric F Crist
On Feb 25, 2005, at 4:27 PM, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 04:16:40PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: [...] Here's the problem, hope the preceding is a good background to it. Find that the IP address for the 5.3 box gets changed on a fairly regular basis by (I guess) my xp gateway so

Re: ip addr changes on 5.3 but not on 4.8

2005-02-26 Thread Marty Landman
At 10:32 AM 2/26/2005, Eric F Crist wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 04:16:40PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: that the IP address for the 5.3 box gets changed on a fairly regular basis [snip] The 4.8 box's IP addr has been stable. The other thing you could try would be to set a static IP on your

Re: ip addr changes on 5.3 but not on 4.8

2005-02-26 Thread wo_shi_big_stomach
--- Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just can't help but notice that this is only a problem on my 5.3 box and not on the 4.8. AFAIK the config's are identical, although obviously I am still a newbie at this. you might try paging through dmesg | more to see if the system recognizes

Re: ip addr changes on 5.3 but not on 4.8

2005-02-26 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 09:06:41PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: At 10:32 AM 2/26/2005, Eric F Crist wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 04:16:40PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: that the IP address for the 5.3 box gets changed on a fairly regular basis [snip] The 4.8 box's IP addr has been

Re: ip addr changes on 5.3 but not on 4.8

2005-02-25 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 04:16:40PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: [...] Here's the problem, hope the preceding is a good background to it. Find that the IP address for the 5.3 box gets changed on a fairly regular basis by (I guess) my xp gateway so that I then have to change the gateway hosts

Re: ip addr changes on 5.3 but not on 4.8

2005-02-25 Thread Marty Landman
At 05:27 PM 2/25/2005, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 04:16:40PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: [...] Here's the problem, hope the preceding is a good background to it. Find that the IP address for the 5.3 box gets changed on a fairly regular basis by (I guess) my xp gateway so that

Re: ip addr changes on 5.3 but not on 4.8

2005-02-25 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 06:20:31PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: This has nothing to do with the FreeBSD boxes, but rather a configuration issue with your DHCP server. The DHCP server can be configured so that it will always give the same IP for a particular NIC. Talk to your admin about it.