Re: networkmanager gets another IP than dhclient

[Marc Herbert <Marc Herbert gmail com>]

Le 26/03/2010 18:38, Paul Fox a écrit :

> it's a very rare dhcp server that won't give you the same address
> you had before, if it's available.

This does happen to me sometimes (and it is a pain).

But only with NM 0.7.1, which is not able to request the same address.


> what seems more likely is that in one case or the other, the dhcp
> client is passing a client id to the server, which will be used
> instead of the mac address as a way of looking up the client in
> the server's datastore.  to the server, your debian box will look
> like two different clients:  one identifying itself by mac
> address, and the other by client-id.

I fail to see why NM would ever tell dhclient to use a "special"
client-id different from the usual one.