Re: Different addresses @ boot time

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (11/03/05 01:26), ismaillist@ctscorp.com wrote:
> When my machine boots up for a couple of minutes I can get to the static IP address that I assigned using /etc/network/interfaces. But then after those couple of minutes, the machine appears to broadcast for a DHCP address and gets a totally different address than is in the interfaces file. Why is this happening and how can I ensure that the static address holds?
It sounds as though you have both dhcp and static settings within
/etc/network/interfaces

Comment out the two lines relating to dhcp:

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

Regards

Clive

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