[CentOS] DHCP without network access

[Scot L. Harris]

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 15:33, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
> Actually the DHCP client on the box was setup during installation (pretty 
> much the default there).  As for the server, that was done by installing 
> and enabling the server (via "yum install dhcpd" and "chkconfig ... dhcpd 
> on" and "/etc/init.d/dhcpd restart") with a hand edited /etc/dhcpd.conf 
> configuration file.
> 
> Basically the problem was that I unloaded the kernel module responsible 
> for the network interface on the DHCP server and then loaded a different 
> once and forgot to restart applicable services (DHCP) that bind direct to 
> devices - thus leading to no DHCP on the reloaded network interface for a 
> little over quarter of a day (until I restarted the DHCP server). 
> Obviously the server issue was an oops on my part, but the question is why 
> doesn't the client recover gracefully....
> 

Maybe it did but has a different IP address now?  Or did you lock IP
address assigned to the MAC address?