On 05/26/2013 02:21 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 05/25/2013 06:00 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
> I've got several machines on a LAN behind a NAT with DHCP assigning
> always the same addresses from a dynamic IP.
>
> A couple of days ago the IP changed & since then, one of the machines
> running Fedora 17 always fails first time to connect to the network:
> launch Thunderbird, no start screen, first attempt to check mail, it
> tells me that there's no network connection, second attempt it connects.
As long as it always gets the same IP address, why don't you just set it
manually?
The same address assigned is in the 192.168.1.xxx range & is, obviously,
internal. The dynamic IP is external & this is the one that changes & I
have no control over it (& I can't get a static IP unfortunately).
Cheers,
Phil...
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