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?