DHCP 'weirdness'

[MKlinke]

On Saturday 03 July 2004 11:08, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
 
> The funny thing, I put in the original HD, and boot the original RH
> 7.3, and I got the same IP back that I've had for the last two
> years. what gives? ? I checked and made sure that both RH 7.3 and
> RHEL 3 boot from DHCP. So any suggestion on how to "trick" the DHCP
> server so I can get my old IP, always ?  


Could your RH7.3 machine be forcing one MAC address while your RHEL 3 
install presents a different one?  This can be specified by using a 
syntax something like:

ifconfig ethx hw ether 00:20:40:60:80:A0

Regards,  Mike Klinke