Re: wicd trouble -- continued
On Friday 29 July 2016 18:07:43 Glenn English wrote:
> > On Jul 29, 2016, at 5:18 AM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Friday 29 July 2016 01:01:07 Glenn English wrote:
> >> But. When I tried again after telling wicd to use DHCP instead of a
> >> static IP, it successfully connected. It even got the IP I'd set up for
> >> the laptop over on the DHCP server's config.
> >
> > Ah! There's the clue, I would guess.
>
> I claim your guess doesn't apply here, Lisi.
>
> > You had reserved the IP so the DHCP server wouldn't let anything have it.
>
> My DHCP server (the one supplied by a Wheezy install) is configured so that
> if it sees a MAC it recognizes, it gives out the IP that matches. Otherwise
> it picks one from a pool, in a distant part of the net, that I've set up
> for the purpose.
>
> DHCP won't let anyone use an IP that it considers sacred *if DHCP has a
> chance to*. Setting a static IP in a wicd config means DHCP is completely
> out of the circuit and is never contacted (if my wicd guess is correct -- I
> haven't looked at the source, so I don't really know what wicd does with a
> static IP).
>
> And besides, the DHCP config had been set up a long time ago, when my plan
> for the network was different. The wicd static was indeed different from
> the one in the DHCP config. And neither is mentioned anywhere else.
>
> And I'd been using wicd for months with the same static IP config. No
> probs.
>
> > But let the DHCP server dish it out.
>
> That usually works just fine. But when I'm doing something rootly, there is
> sometimes no DHCP available. DHCP can be a mixed blessing.
Ah, OK, so it is still a mystery. Well, no true mystery is guessable. ;-)
Specially when half the facts are unknown.
Stick to Brian's magic. It usually works. ;-)
Lisi
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