On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:01:17 +0000, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:49:24 +0000, I wrote: > >> I asked my organization to assign me a static IP address within their >> network, and they obliged. The problem is that every time I boot now, >> I still get the old address in DHCP space that I had before. > > On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:26:32 +0000 (UTC), Camaleón replied: > >> How about "ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0" and then "ifconfig"? > > That still leaves me with the unwanted DHCP address.
Mmm... >> Is dhclient runnig in background? > > Now that looks interesting. On the machine trying to set the static IP, > this is running: > > /sbin/dhclient -d -4 -sf /usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action > \ > -pf /var/run/dhclient-eth0.pid \ > -lf > /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-ea3f96a9-7876-448b-b213-bbd10424e4f7-eth0.lease > \ -cf /var/run/nm-dhclient-eth0.conf eth0 > > The parent process is shown as /usr/sbin/NetworkManager. On my other > machine, which is successfully using a static IP, dhclient is not > running. Both machines have identical versions of > /etc/init.d/network-manager, neither of which shows any obvious call to > dhclient. (...) NM calls -by default- "dhclient", so... is NM running? If so, stop NM ("/etc/init.d/network-manager stop") or kill "dhclient" process and then restart the network service (also run ifdown/ifup, just to be sure). After that run "ifconfig" to check the current IP. If that solves your problem, just disable NM and your happiness will inmediately start :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.08.15.16.14...@gmail.com