IP address incorrectly assigned on boot

[j.e.aneiros]

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Geoffrey Leach <geoff at hughes.net> wrote:

> A system on my local network (pvr) has its IP address in /etc/hosts
>
> geoff at pvr[1]->cat /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4
> localhost4.localdomain4
>
> 192.168.10.2    pvr.mtranch.com pvr
> 192.168.10.3    mtranch.mtranch.com mtranch
> 192.168.10.1    Netgear
> 198.168.20.5    Homerun
>
> Netgear router accessed from pvr via wireless. It has the address
> 192.168.10.2 reserved and assigned to pvr. Worked fine.  Today after
> booting up the latest kernel, (3.2.2-1.fc16.i686.PAE), the IP address
> has changed to 192.168.10.5:
>
> geoff at pvr[2]->ifconfig wlan0
> wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr AE:5D:BA:91:67:2D
>          inet addr:192.168.10.5  Bcast:192.168.10.255
> Mask:255.255.255.0
>          inet6 addr: fe80::ac5d:baff:fe91:672d/64 Scope:Link
>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:484 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:462 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>
> you'll note that it is 192.168.10.5
>
> Not surprisingly, I can't ssh 192.168.10.2, but I can ssh 192.168.10.5
>
> Question: where is this (dynamic?) assignment taking place?
>

I think the machine is requesting the router a new IP and the router
couldn't match the MAC of the request with the MAC associated to the
reserved IP 192.168.10.2, so is giving a new IP in the range. Something
change at the machine, did you check the MAC AE:5D:BA:91:67:2D against your
rule in the router?


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