[wplug] Request Same IP?

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

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On Monday 31 March 2003 08:50, Kubbie wrote:
> No, no offense taken.  Yes, DHCP is a service, and I was thinking
> having the same IP constantly is a little less secure.

You're right, it's one extra layer of security (a little bit obscurity 
never hurt anyone).

It seems that your DHCP *client* is requesting the same IP over and over 
again from your ISP. This doesn't have much to do with the DHCP server 
you may be running for your internal network. It might help forcing 
your address leases to expire (there must be a switch to your dhcp 
client to do that), or just deleting the leases database at every 
shutdown.

I haven't got Slackware installed right now so I can't read through the 
configuration files to find out how this can be done, but I would 
suggest a couple "diagnostic" commands to get you started:

# apropos dhcp
# grep -R dhcp /etc   (the sledgehammer approach)

Let us know when you find it, it's a useful thing to know!

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