Hi, I am newbie to Fedora and I would like ask for a (for me important) clarification regarding the assignment of the IP address of the computers of my LAN.
Having problems to access to a repository located on another computer on my LAN, I used, several times, the ping command to check the accessibility of the nodes in the network ... With my surprise, the answers that I received using the ping command (with IP number) had not been consistent. ...an IP number available at a certain time was no longer available some time after (and vice-verse); And happened also that non-existent IP addresses in the network occurred as available, ...some times.... Moreover, a test done with /sbin/ifconfig stated that some IP addresses changed in the time.. ... [angelo@zorro ~]$ /sbin/ifconfig em0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 10.0.0.6 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255 inet6 fe80::227:eff:fe1f:824c prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link> ether 00:27:0e:1f:82:4c txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 28131 bytes 30128278 (28.7 MiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 20820 bytes 2430096 (2.3 MiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 device interrupt 20 memory 0xf2100000-f2120000 [angelo@zorro ~]$ /sbin/ifconfig em0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255 inet6 fe80::227:eff:fe1f:824c prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link> ether 00:27:0e:1f:82:4c txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 44558 bytes 37451123 (35.7 MiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 33627 bytes 6296194 (6.0 MiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 device interrupt 20 memory 0xf2100000-f2120000 I didn't expect a such (for me) strange situation, and I would like to have some explanation about it. I can only think that all can be correlated to the dynamic assignment of the IP address (DHCP), but the change of the IP happen also if the computers are not rebooted. If, is possible, I should like have a reference to documentation that can explain this my problem. Thank you Regards Angelo
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