Re: unable to renew ip

2014-03-07 Thread Dan Purgert
On 07/03/2014 11:37, Lina wrote: > >> On 8 Mar, 2014, at 12:13 am, Dan Purgert wrote: >> >>> On 07/03/2014 09:49, lina wrote: On Friday 07,March,2014 10:35 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: [...] >>> >>> > I received that two emails last month. It is more like re-sent. I sent an SMS > to her t

Re: unable to renew ip

2014-03-07 Thread Lina
> On 8 Mar, 2014, at 12:13 am, Dan Purgert wrote: > >> On 07/03/2014 09:49, lina wrote: >>> On Friday 07,March,2014 10:35 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: >>> [...] >> >> Something really weird, my icedove, 6 hours ago popped up an email which >> was 2 months ago as unread, couple of mins ago, it also po

Re: unable to renew ip

2014-03-07 Thread Dan Purgert
On 07/03/2014 09:49, lina wrote: > On Friday 07,March,2014 10:35 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: >> [...] > > Something really weird, my icedove, 6 hours ago popped up an email which > was 2 months ago as unread, couple of mins ago, it also popped up > another email as unread also from that thread, the sam

Re: unable to renew ip

2014-03-07 Thread lina
On Friday 07,March,2014 10:35 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: > You're still on a (largeish, based on the Class-B network range) network > -- you at a university? Yes. > > Just because _you_ aren't the one using those services doesn't mean that > someone else is not, and subsequently messing up your thro

Re: unable to renew ip

2014-03-07 Thread Dan Purgert
On 07/03/2014 09:12, lina wrote: >> >> Your IP address should have no effect on your connection speed (i.e. >> getting a new one won't help you any). You have to find out what's >> causing your connection's throughput to be slow. > > After changing IP, I don't need to wait a hellish time to open

Re: unable to renew ip

2014-03-07 Thread lina
On Friday 07,March,2014 10:10 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: > On 07/03/2014 07:42, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 07/03/14 13:31, Dan Purgert wrote: >>> On 07/03/2014 06:35, lina wrote: Hi, [...] >>> >>> Not sure how/why Jerome decided that the DHCP server is a windows box >>> though.

Re: unable to renew ip

2014-03-07 Thread lina
> > Your IP address should have no effect on your connection speed (i.e. > getting a new one won't help you any). You have to find out what's > causing your connection's throughput to be slow. After changing IP, I don't need to wait a hellish time to open a webpage. At first I even suspected it

Re: unable to renew ip

2014-03-07 Thread Dan Purgert
On 07/03/2014 07:42, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hi, > > On 07/03/14 13:31, Dan Purgert wrote: >> On 07/03/2014 06:35, lina wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> [...] >> >> Not sure how/why Jerome decided that the DHCP server is a windows box >> though. > > As a matter of fact, it was meant to be a private email (

Re: unable to renew ip

2014-03-07 Thread lina
On Friday 07,March,2014 08:14 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > It is not up to you to assign the IP address, but to the DH server. > Your MAC address is there buffer. > The local DH server is window$. what renders thing harder. > You can try to remove your MAC from their memory by no connecting for a whi

Re: unable to renew ip

2014-03-07 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi, On 07/03/14 13:31, Dan Purgert wrote: > On 07/03/2014 06:35, lina wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I use dhclient and just switch to google dns server. >> >> For months, I have bees stuck with the eth0 ip address 172.21.100.159 > > Uh, that's part of the private class-B range (172.16.0.0/12). You're > get

Re: unable to renew ip

2014-03-07 Thread Dan Purgert
On 07/03/2014 06:35, lina wrote: > Hi, > > I use dhclient and just switch to google dns server. > > For months, I have bees stuck with the eth0 ip address 172.21.100.159 Uh, that's part of the private class-B range (172.16.0.0/12). You're getting it from your local DHCP server. Only way to chan

Re: unable to renew ip

2014-03-07 Thread Jerome BENOIT
It is not up to you to assign the IP address, but to the DH server. Your MAC address is there buffer. The local DH server is window$. what renders thing harder. You can try to remove your MAC from their memory by no connecting for a while (days, weeks ?). You can also try to send a fake MAC address

Re: unable to renew ip

2014-03-07 Thread lina
On Friday 07,March,2014 07:35 PM, lina wrote: > Hi, > > I use dhclient and just switch to google dns server. > > For months, I have bees stuck with the eth0 ip address 172.21.100.159 > > For couple of hours, the interaction is unbearably slow. > > I changed to another cable, tried the `# dhclin

unable to renew ip

2014-03-07 Thread lina
Hi, I use dhclient and just switch to google dns server. For months, I have bees stuck with the eth0 ip address 172.21.100.159 For couple of hours, the interaction is unbearably slow. I changed to another cable, tried the `# dhcline -r` and `# dhclient`, but all not works. Are there some sugge