dhclient fedora11 x86_64

[Frank Cox]

On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 13:14 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:13:16 -0600
> Frank Cox wrote:
> 
> > Are you aware of any issues which might cause one of our
> > machines (intel core2 duo, if it matters) to lose it IP
> > address every few hours?
> 
> Is the "few hours" period identical to the dhcp lease time?
> I had at least one system where "network" and "NetworkManager"
> somehow wound up fighting each other until I finally tracked
> down the last obscure tweak needed to make NetworkManager
> ignore the interface. Until then, every time the lease
> expired, it would randomly switch IP addresses because NM
> would issue an extra dhcp request.

Thanks for the suggestion.  I have passed this on to him.

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