[PLUG] Comcast network remap?

Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca
Wed Jan 14 23:39:02 UTC 2004


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On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 12:59:24PM -0800, Paul Lankow wrote:
> That's good. How about this. I haven't done this in a while but for
> me, Windows would get one IP and Linux would get another. Go figure.
> It's like they ask differently or something.

Both DHCP clients ask for the IP address they had last, and if it
doesn't bother to ask for a specific IP (like never got a lease
before, or configured specifically not to ask), then the DHCP server
will either give it the last IP it remembers that host having or some
other semi-random IP based on whether or not it's already being used
and other factors that is most briefly summerized as roughly whenever
it feels like changing it.

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