DHCP oddness
Jonathan Murray
jmurray at whoi.edu
Wed Apr 4 15:33:10 UTC 2007
Perhaps this is problem with dhclient.leases file? It doesn't seem like
everything is being refreshed. maybe try doing a /etc/init.d/networking
restart? I'm not sure if that does more than ifconfig interface_name
down/up.
Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Anyone experience anything like this?
>
> I have Ubuntu Feisty-Beta running on a Dell Optiplex GX260. Because
> of a quick fix job that had to be done, the hub the system was
> plugged into was removed, so the system was running but didn't have
> network access.
>
> When I got back I plugged the system into a wall socket for network
> connectivity instead of going into the hub it was on before. While
> it would say it was on a wired network, DHCP would *not* pull a new
> address. I shut down the interface (ifconfig eth0 down) and brought
> it back up, still nothing. I switched patch cables, still nothing.
> Only rebooting the computer allowed it to correctly pull an address.
>
> Anyone run into this before?
>
> -Bart
>
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