Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1188 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lew Wolfgang wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> I noticed that 12.1 seems to have changed DHCP behavior where a new
> lease is not requested when the network interface is brought up.  This
> manifests itself when an Ethernet cable is moved from one network to
> another.  The DHCP-obtained parameters, including IP address, netmask
> and default gateway, "stick".  The configuration persists through
> reboots and manually bouncing the network.  Yesterday the only way I
> could get it to reset was to remove the lease files in /var/lib/dhcpd,
> then bounce the network.

On a reboot dhcpcd has to be started, so check to see what is happening
at that point.  

> This behavior is new to 12.1, has anyone else noticed it?  How can we
> tell the DHCP client to re-obtain a lease when its interface is
> brought up? This behavior noticed on more than one install of x86-64.

I have just checked the dhcp behaviour on my 12.1 laptop - nothing
unusual, works just like before.  (grep dhcp /var/log/messages).



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Per Jessen, Zürich (6.1°C)

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