DHCP with some fonts on the side

[volvoguy]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:37:37 +0200, Andy Rabagliati <andyr at wizzy.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, volvoguy wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone know what might be tweaked in Ubuntu that I get a
> > different IP address via DHCP every time I reboot?
> 
> [I unly use ubuntu as a client on DHCP, found no problems)
> 
> Do you have more than one DHCP server on your network ?
> 
> Is the dhcp server Ubuntu, or something else ?

I've only used Ubuntu as a DHCP client as well. My DHCP server is a
Slackware box which I've never had any other issues with in other
OS's. In fact, that server has been up longer than I've been using
Ubuntu - and it's still working fine with several Windows boxes
connected.

16:01:36 up 83 days, 12:57,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

(hey, I've never done that. it DOES make one feel kinda proud)  :-)

> Something funny with permissions in /var/lib/dhcp on
> the server (like: not writeable ?)

Not sure about this one. There's no file or directory there on my
Slackware system. My big problem here is that my business partner has
always insisted we both use Slackware on our home servers. We use them
for development and until now he's always done all the administration
on them. To be fair, I'm sure it IS easier to only deal with one OS on
two machines doing the same tasks. Unfortunately he got married a few
months ago and hasn't been as available as he has in the past. (I sent
this question to him two weeks ago and haven't received a reply yet).
Some of you may also know that the Slackware community isn't very
helpful compared to Ubuntu's - so I've never been able to get much
info out of them.

Because this is only happening on Ubuntu machines, I decided it would
be safe to ask the list here. :-)


FWIW, this is the only dhcp related process I see running in Ubuntu (ps ax):

dhclient3 -pf /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid -lf /var/run/dhclient.eth0.leases eth0

-- 
Aaron

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