DHCP - KUBUNTU 7.04`

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Wed Jun 13 23:46:47 UTC 2007


Matthew Flaschen wrote:

> JD wrote:
>> I must say this is pretty frustrating...
>> I set up dhcp on eth0 at work.
>> I brought my laptop home, and no matter what I do (even wiping out the
>> /etc/network/interfaces file), when I restart networking, restart kdm, or
>> even reboot, KUbuntu shows my dhcp address from WORK...
>> My only conclusion is that either whatever avahi is it's storing
>> information separate from networking on Linux...
> 
> Avahi is not DHCP.  You should disable that and network manager, and
> just use DHCP.

I know you don't like network manager, but it still does a fine job for most
people, including me, and disabling it is more likely to cause him problems
than fix them.
-- 
derek





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