On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 07:53 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 1/16/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Googling with "gentoo + dhclient.conf" and "dhcp + reject ip addreses" > > doesn't give me any good leads. > > > > I have a problem in which the DHCP server assigns a Bad IP address to > > me. (miss pings, long delays etc..) I have tried various means to get a > > new IP but it's not giving it to me since the DHCP has bonded it self to > > my PCMCIA NIC's MAC Addr. > > You need administrative control of the DHCP server,
Which I don't have. > > But the problems you describe sound like some other device on the > network has the same address as your PC. I think it's more like too much broadcast or problematic Switch/hub etc?? I don't knwo > You might try some network > monitoring tools like tcpdump or ethereal to see what is going on. In > particular, pay attention to ARP requests and responses. I did. Nothing significant came up. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 09:19:35 up 23:22, 6 users, load average: 0.24, 0.66, 2.14 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
