[CentOS] CentOS 5 loses ip address (newbie question)
William L. Maltby
CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com
Sat Feb 2 01:09:07 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 16:53 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
It threw me for a loop first time I ever saw it. Especially when (for a
brief moment IIRC) that *and* my IP was assigned to the same device.
I guess that means the OP should check the logs for the DISCOVER...
messages to see what is going on. He'll probably see the OFFERED
rejected somewhere?
> <snip sig stuff>
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Bill
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