Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses

2006-01-22 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Ow, on Wednesday, 2006-01-18 at 09:22:06, you wrote: you have a DHCP server you don't control (@work?) Yes. and it's not giving you the IP you want but something else---abd in what way? it's giving me an IP, just not a good One. (upstream connection is bad) Well, what exactly is

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses

2006-01-17 Thread Mattias Merilai
Ow Mun Heng 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

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses

2006-01-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 12:11 +, Mattias Merilai wrote: Ow Mun Heng 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

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses

2006-01-17 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Ow, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 13:22:06, you wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses

2006-01-17 Thread Richard Fish
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

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses

2006-01-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
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

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses

2006-01-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 12:01 +0100, Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Ow, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 13:22:06, you wrote: I have a problem in which the DHCP server assigns a Bad IP address to me. (miss pings, long delays etc..) Short of waiting close 24 hours (and hoping that that address is

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses

2006-01-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/17/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 If it was a switch problem, it should not be

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses

2006-01-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 19:01 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/17/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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??

[gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses

2006-01-16 Thread Ow Mun Heng
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