Changing the DHCP address of a machine on my Local LAN

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 15:22 -0600, Mikkel wrote: 
> On 03/06/2010 03:06 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > 
> > I am not using my neighbors wireless. The machine is hard-wired to the
> > router but does not use the router as a DHCP server. It did until this
> > morning but now it does not. How does one change that behavior?
> > 
> Check the configuration of the router. You can also try to reset the
> router. Outside of giving the machine a static IP address, there is
> not much you can do on the machine. This is NOT a problem with the
> Linux machine - it is a router problem.
> 
> If you want to know why this is a router problem, find some good
> documentation on how DHCP works. The machine making the request
> responds to the first DHCP server that replies...
> 
> Mikkel

I agree with your analysis of the problem. But that leaves us with the
following mystery.. There are 4 machines on the LAN. Why does only the
one get a response from the providers DHCP server first? Also why this
only occurred this morning after using the routers DHCP server for 6
months?
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