On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 12:01 +0100, Matthias Bethke wrote: > Hi Ow, > on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 13:22:06, you wrote: > > I have a problem in which the DHCP server assigns a Bad IP address to > > me. (miss pings, long delays etc..) > > > > Short of waiting close 24 hours (and hoping that that address is not > > given back to me again!), is there any way to reject some IP addreses it > > provides to me? > > you have a DHCP server you don't control (@work?)
Yes. > and it's not giving > you the IP you want but something else---"abd" in what way? it's giving me an IP, just not a good One. (upstream connection is bad) > And it > remembers your PCMCIA card's MAC address... That's the DHCP lease. > so you have another port in > your laptop and want to use that instead? No. I would like to get another IP which is not the problematic one. > I'd think if the DHCP server gives you an andress that doesn't work in > your subnet then it's a server configuration issue and should be fixed > there. yeah.. Unfortunately, I have no administrative control over it. :-( -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
