[CentOS] CentOS 5 loses ip address (newbie question)
William L. Maltby
CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.comSat Feb 2 01:09:07 UTC 2008
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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> -- Bill
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