Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (842 mails)

[Herbert Graeber <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 25 May 2008 21:07:03 Mark Gray wrote:
> It appears that the DHCP client for 11.0 Beta3 consistently gets a
> different IP address than 10.2 does from the DHCP server in my DSL
> router.  If this is not a bug, it might be well to mention this in the
> release notes, because I am probably not the only one who uses
> /etc/hosts to configure their local network.  I hesitate to report
> this as a bug because there are easy enough ways around this -- just
> changing my /etc/hosts files being the easiest.

Do not use DHCP and fixed IP-Addresses if possible. This isn't a good mix. 
DHCP servers usually are able to assign fixed IPs based on the MAC address of 
the network card. But the ones in DSL router usually don't have this option.

The easiest solution for a small home network would be to use DHCP and let it 
do the whole configuration for you. There should be no need to make changes in 
/etc/hosts.

Cheers,
Herbert


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