On Saturday 06 March 2010, Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 13:00 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
> > I have a LAN at home of 4 machines. Up to yesterday all of
them were
> > getting their ip addresses from the DSL router I have at home. Suddenly
> > one of the machines (an F12 machine) began to use ATT's DHCP server to
> > get its ip address.
> >
> > I know there is a way to change that machine back to using the router
> > at home to get DHCP service but I have forgotten how to do this. Can
> > someone help me?
>
> 1. Don't use your neighbor's wireless. Rename your wireless router so
> you can easily pick it out.
> 2. Use a cable and plug it directly into your router.
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?
That depends on whether you are using fixed addressing, or the router has a
dhcp server in it. I do both here, with an /etc/resolv.conf set as read
only, and pointing at my dd-wrt router, with a dhcp server enabled on the
router, basically for the lappy. All other machines here use host files and
fixed addressing. No dhcp listed in the ifcfg-portname files at all except
the lappy.
So check the server settings in the router, and its NAT settings too if the
above doesn't tickle a memory.
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