[newbie] DHCP release/renewal

2003-01-15 Thread Noquar
Hi all, this is my first time posting to this list. The question I had was this... I run two computers off a hub/switch in my house on a cable modem, my ISP will assign a separate IP to both so it doesn't require a router. My Windows machine has kept the same IP for months, my Mandrake 9.0

Re: [newbie] DHCP release/renewal

2003-01-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 04:40, Noquar wrote: Hi all, this is my first time posting to this list. The question I had was this... I run two computers off a hub/switch in my house on a cable modem, my ISP will assign a separate IP to both so it doesn't require a router. My Windows machine has

Re: [newbie] DHCP release/renewal

2003-01-15 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 18:14, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Linux or UNIX are inherently shitting with being DHCP clients - if anything, static IP is preferred to anything else. Sorry - there are heaps of work-arounds, but in reality, nothing beats the stability of static. I used to say something