Re: lost nic

[Marty Landman <MLandman@face2interface.com>]

At 09:01 PM 2/16/2004, Jacob S. wrote:

> As for various computers on the network keeping the same ip address,
> it's not uncommon for a dhcp server to continue giving them the same one

You're making me think about it now. I don't know where, or if this can be 
specified by me to the xp box.

> (there's a lot that can vary here, but I know a lot of cable internet
> users that have the same ip for months on end, or even close to a year).

I'm thinking that with each nic having its own unique id# this is 
facilitated... or at least possible to do.

> Sorry. My knowledge about Windows is (purposely) decreasing. I got tired
> of the maintenance costs (in both time and money) when I used to use
> Win98 and have been trying to keep my distance from anything newer than
> WinME as often as possible.

w95/98/me are all based on the 95 kernel which nt/xp/2000/2003 all use the 
nt kernel. xp believe or not is quite stable from my experience. 
Reinstalling 98 yesterday reminds me of what a pita that os line is... to 
be fair though I've found xp to be quite stable. I reboot when it's 
necessary, or I think it is which seems to be more often than it really is. 
Anyway...

> > Whatever happened it only affected the Debian box, not the fbsd or rh
> > ones.
>
> That does make it more curious.

I wonder though. Jacob, the other two nix boxes have 3com nics in them 
while the debian box has a netgear nic. XP would know this, at least if it 
wants to and is designed to do so. After all it did reassign the ip to the 
w98 box, and that was a reinstall of the same os while it didn't reassign 
the ip's to either the fbsd or rh boxes during numerous reinstalls first 
from windows 95->unix then unix->unix. Maybe the key difference is the 
netgear nic... they're on the w98 and debian boxes and not on the other two 
unix boxes.

> Good! It's definitely fun, especially as you get more knowledgeable and 
> can move on to the harder experiments and projects (IMO).

I know, can't wait till I learn to read the code a bit and see what's 
really going on in there.

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