Computer Wont release ip

[Wade Smart]

Wade Smart wrote:
> Rashkae wrote:
>> Wade Smart wrote:
>>> A friend of mine called and said his computer wont release the IP 
>>> address. A little window keeps popping up saying IP conflict. I think 
>>> he has a old 98 machine (I know.. he needs off but.....). After 
>>> releasing and renewing, rebooting, just turning the thing off for a 
>>> day or two, he said it just keeps getting the same ip address again.
>>>
>>> He called the ISP and they confirmed that the IP was assigned to 
>>> another clients a few days back.
>>>
>>> I gave him my 9.10 cd and told him to use it for a day or two. 
>>> Everything worked fine in the first 5 or so hours and then he lost 
>>> internet connection again. I had him check the IP and its the same 
>>> one again.
>>>
>>> Ok, a older 98 machine is trouble waiting to happen but, a new OS 
>>> (running off cd I should add) shouldnt pickup the same ip.
>>>
>>> I would appreciate a little trouble shooting help.
>>>
>>> Wade
>>
>> I think the ISP is screwing up big time... They assigned the IP address
>> to another client, but it's still getting picked in Dynamic pool.  Most
>> DHCP servers keep a cache of NIC hardware address (sorry, brain failed
>> and I don't remember what they are properly called) and will re-assign
>> the same IP address to the same NIC, no matter how many times the client
>> OS "releases" the IP.  The easiest way to deal with this will probably
>> be to use a different NIC, and hopefully making it someone else's
>> problem whatever the misconfiguration is.
>>
>>
>>
> 
> Ok. This is what I was thinking too. Im going down to check out the ISP 
> tomorrow. ... Opps.. Monday. :D
> 
> Wade
> 

So I lent my notebook (XP & Ubuntu) to my friend and on Windows, it gets 
a new ip just fine. No problem releaesing and renewing. Did the same on 
Ubuntu (just in case). So he plugged in his computer - it picked up the 
same IP as before - a error popped up about the IP conflict.

This must be hardware related to his pc.
Wade
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