setting IP address manually

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Mon Oct 24 07:20:29 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 00:07 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote:
> You do not have to actively tell it to do so, it is part of the
> configuration protocol and that behavior is seen on all OSes I have
> ever worked with (except maybe the antique DOS). For sure all modern
> TCP stacks make that check.

I've seen it happen, and I can postulate several reasons why it might
have worked:

The other machine wasn't on the network when you set your IP.
A firewall on the other machine might have broken this feature.
You've brought a pre-configured machine to a network.
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