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----- Forwarded message from slug@nks.net -----
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:23:31 -0400
From: Paul Bransford <draeath@gmail.com>
FYI, most systems let you ch*nge the MAC *ddress via software. Look up
the software 'macchanger' (at least if memory serves right, that's the
package name for debian-like systems)
If you have a few clues as to what the typo is, you can change your MAC
and rerun DHCP until you find it...?
Ken Elliott wrote:
>>> It was going to be DHCP-assigned fixed addresses, but I made a typo
> entering somewhere in the (IP, MAC) pair, and the crappy router software
> won't let you fix or delete a mapping until it is active, which it'll never
> be because there's a typo on it.
>
> No problem. That means the router will reserve the address, so you can
> simply use that address as a static address in the VM. The MAC address
> won't matter, and you won't have to run around changing anything.
>
>
> Ken Elliott
> =====================
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Eben King
> Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 4:56 PM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: RE: [SLUG] redoing DHCP
>
> On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Ken Elliott wrote:
>
>> Eben King wrote on Saturday, August 22, 2009 2:32 PM
>>
>>> I have a VM in vmplayer. When it was last booted, it got an address via
>
>>> DHCP. Eventually I suspended the OS and exited the VM, and the router
>>> released the address. But next time the VM was resumed it continued
>>> using the same address. By this time it had already been given out
>>> again by the router. This has happened before. How do I force Linux to
>
>>> retry DHCP? ifdown/ifup?
>
>> Why use DHCP? I'd suggest a fixed address and reserve it in DHCP so you
>> don't get a conflict.
>
> It was going to be DHCP-assigned fixed addresses, but I made a typo
entering
>
> somewhere in the (IP, MAC) pair, and the crappy router software won't let
> you fix or delete a mapping until it is active, which it'll never
be because
>
> there's a typo on it. $%*^. But I'd rather have a centralized location
> from which I can employ a new NIC -> IP mapping than have to run around to
> all the computers. Never mind that there are several transient computers
> which may not get the word.
>
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