My notebook is also SuSE 8.0. I did find that on 8.0, that the network sometimes didn't come up right away as it did on 7.3. I played with the timeout parameter (set to 999999). You can change this via YaST2. On 21 Jun 2002 at 20:56, Andre Truter wrote:
Hi All,
I have a notebook that is running SuSE 8.0
I use the notebook on different networks (Work, home, clients, etc)
The whole idea (for me) for using a dynamic IP configuration when you have a portable computer, is so that you can just plug it into any network with a DHCP server and your computer wil then use the IP address given to it.
Now SuSE 8.0 does not seem do do this every time. When I get onto another network, the dhcpd service asks for a the IP address that it had on the previous network. Most DHCP servers respond with a NACK (I don't use that IP range, so go and play on the Highway with your requested address)
I RTFM'ed and I discovered that dhcpd normally DOES NOT request it's old IP. If you want that, you have to give it an option. (-s).
I cannot find any place where you can enable/disable this behaviour. It seems to be hardcoded somewhere.
Can anyone PLEASE tell me how to disable this?
Thanks --
Andre Truter Software Engineer Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 AIM: trusoftzaf http://www.trusoft.za.net
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