ip addr changes on 5.3 but not on 4.8

[Jonathan Chen]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 11:46:47AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:

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> Ok, then the reason my DHCP server on my XP gateway would have to be 
> discriminating between the boxes since it's consistently only happening to 
> one box and not the other.

Correct. It is possible to set up DHCP servers so that the IP address
given out to clients is based on the MAC address of each network
device. That sure sounds like what your DHCP is doing.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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