Fedora and Qwest

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Wed May 16 23:38:01 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 15:14 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> One thing to be careful about is that you use the same NIC for all
> the tests. Just about every Cable/DSL modem I have run into will
> "remember" the first NIC it gave the DHCP lease to, and will not
> give one to a different NIC unless you power-cycle it. 

Will probably not give the *same* IP to a different NIC.  Most will give
a different IP to a different NIC.  That's normal operation.

Some won't give any IPs to new NICs as a security feature, but that
tends to be something that you set up.

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