On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Herbert Graeber
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.
Ah -- but the one in mine does -- it appears that 11.0 sends a different dhcp-client-identifier than 10.2 does (which used the MAC address by default) and the DHCP server gives it a different IP. (It could also be that 11.0 fixes a bug in 10.2 which might have used a slightly mangled version of the MAC address.)
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.
Yes -- but I want to be able to communicate between the computers on my local net using the IP address assigned by my router, and there is no simpler method than modifying my /etc/hosts file. (If worse comes to worse, I can write a perl script which uses arping to locate the IP addresses of all my computers, but since 11.0 always gets the same address (albeit a different one from 10.2), just modifying my /etc/hosts seems sufficient to me). --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org