Subj : Re: IP address keeps changing...help!
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Sybren Stuvel
Date : Thu Jul 08 2004 09:15 am

Joe Attardi enlightened us with:
> My problem is - every once in a while, it seems that eth0 will
> request an IP address from dhcpd, so it gets assigned an IP of, say,
> 192.168.0.254. Since the other computers have the default gateway
> set to 192.168.0.1, obviously all the computers lose their
> connection, and I have to manually log in to the box and run the
> command 'ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1' to set it back.

But if it needs a fixed IP address, why use DHCP at all?

> Is there _any_ way I can stop this from happening?

Find out what is starting the DHCP client. Or, if you don't need it at
all, why don't you just uninstall the client completely?

Sybren
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The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

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