On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Landon Stewart wrote:
> I'm using dhclient to obtain an IP address from my ISP. They claim that I
> am "hard coding" an IP because my IP doesn't seem to change. I know that
> dhclient keeps a database of past leases and attempts to renew the same IP
> whenever possible.
as far as I can recall, the dhcp *server* mantains a /etc/lease files, where the
latest ip-addr corresponding to a specifc MAC address are tied one to another. The
situation is:
a) if there are 500 available ip for 1,000 clients, is is supposed that it will change
frequently
b) if there are 1
