On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Geoffrey Leach <ge...@hughes.net> wrote:
> A system on my local network (pvr) has its IP address in /etc/hosts > > geoff@pvr[1]->cat /etc/hosts > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 > localhost4.localdomain4 > > 192.168.10.2 pvr.mtranch.com pvr > 192.168.10.3 mtranch.mtranch.com mtranch > 192.168.10.1 Netgear > 198.168.20.5 Homerun > > Netgear router accessed from pvr via wireless. It has the address > 192.168.10.2 reserved and assigned to pvr. Worked fine. Today after > booting up the latest kernel, (3.2.2-1.fc16.i686.PAE), the IP address > has changed to 192.168.10.5: > > geoff@pvr[2]->ifconfig wlan0 > wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr AE:5D:BA:91:67:2D > inet addr:192.168.10.5 Bcast:192.168.10.255 > Mask:255.255.255.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::ac5d:baff:fe91:672d/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:484 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:462 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > > you'll note that it is 192.168.10.5 > > Not surprisingly, I can't ssh 192.168.10.2, but I can ssh 192.168.10.5 > > Question: where is this (dynamic?) assignment taking place? > I think the machine is requesting the router a new IP and the router couldn't match the MAC of the request with the MAC associated to the reserved IP 192.168.10.2, so is giving a new IP in the range. Something change at the machine, did you check the MAC AE:5D:BA:91:67:2D against your rule in the router? > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > -- J. E. Aneiros GNU/Linux User #190716 en http://counter.li.org perl -e '$_=pack(c5,0105,0107,0123,0132,(1<<3)+2);y[A-Z][N-ZA-M];print;' PK fingerprint: 5179 917E 5B34 F073 E11A AFB3 4CB3 5301 4A80 F674
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