[techtalk] Address Stealing

[moebius at ip-solutions.net]

Hey Davida,
  The problem appears to be that someone hardcoded their IP addr instead
of letting DHCP assign it. This becomes problematic if DynIP's are
shuffled quite often. If you can, make sure that everyone is using DHCP
not going into TCP/IP properties and setting their addr. The main reason
people do this is to: access their box from home, run servers off of it.
HTH,
Harry

On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Davida Schiff wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> Strange thing is happening when I am installing 6.1 on (work) Pentium III's.
> During install, I choose dhcp (using Tier 1 NIC with eepro100.o Module).
> When the install is finished and the PC reboots...dhcp  gives it an address
> that is static for another PC. ifconfig shows a bogus Ethernet address (per
> cavebear's site). These are dual boot (with NT) PCs. The Ethernet address
> from the NT side is correct and the PC is given a unique IP address when NT
> boots. Anyone know of a work around other then assigning each PC a static
> address.  Bugzilla has no info on this problem. Same thing for deja.com. All
> Red Hat updated RPM's have been applied. 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Davida
> 
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