On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 08:59:08PM BST, Ireneusz Szcześniak wrote: > The computers are in a university laboratory, where students often > unplug the lan cable. Then they plug the cable again after some > time, and unplug again. > > The problem with this plugging and unplugging is that when the > dhclient doesn't receive a lease in time, it randomly picks an > address and stays with it even then the cable is plugged later. > With this random address I can't connect to the computer remotely. > And so the idea of a static address came to my mind. But now I > think I should look into the configuration of dhclient to resolve > the problem.
You can resolve this issue by setting up a long lease time and set up static leases only - it's trivial. Regards, -- Raf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111005211558.ga14...@linuxstuff.pl
