[CentOS] CentOS 5 loses ip address (newbie question)
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Sat Feb 2 00:53:01 UTC 2008
frankly3d-centos wrote:
> Reserved ip in 192.168.x.x range for CenOS 5 (Samba Server)
>
> loses samba clients due to eth0 losing it's ip.
>
>
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> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:61:72:AB:98
> inet addr:169.254.66.122 Bcast:169.254.255.255
> Mask:255.255.0.0
....
whack, 169.254.x.x is the 'auto-IP' range of self assigned IPs used if a
system can't reach the DHCP server. I wasn't aware Linux did this,
I've only seen it on MS Windows.
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