Re: networkmanager gets another IP than dhclient

[Marc Herbert <Marc Herbert gmail com>]

>> i am using Debian Lenny 32bit in a local Network with a DDNS+DHCP 
>> Server. Client and Server are both Debian Lenny. My DHCP works. The 
>> clients get IP's from the DHCP server. But the networkmanager lets me 
>> get <192.168.0.196> and dhclient <192.168.0.185>. I don't know why? Has 
>> somebody any idea.
> 
> A DHCP client can request one of these two things:
> 
> - please lease me this address (again) if it still available, or
> - please lease me any address
> 
> NetworkManager requests the latter. I think a feature request has
> already been filed so NM requests the former; check the archive.

This has fixed for me somewhere between version 0.7.1 and 0.7.998. The
older version used to delete the lease file in /var/lib/dhclient/, so
for sure it could not request the same address.

Which NM version do you have?