DHCP lease list

Antonio antonio.montagnani at gmail.com
Thu Nov 22 15:42:04 UTC 2007


2007/11/22, Bryn M. Reeves <breeves at redhat.com>:
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> Antonio wrote:
> > I have a mixed network with F8 (server DHCP) and F8 development. (laptop)
> >
> > I get the IP from the DHCP server (for example 192.168.0.250): when I
> > list the leases I see the connected laptop but I don't see his
> > hostname .Why??
> >
> > The connecting card is defined as:
> >
> >  # Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
> > DEVICE=eth0
> > ONBOOT=no
> > BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> > HWADDR=00:16:d4:dc:a7:08
> > TYPE=Ethernet
> > DHCP_HOSTNAME=5720ethernet
> > USERCTL=no
> > IPV6INIT=no
> > PEERDNS=yes
>
> A quick glance at the bits of the ifup-eth script that deal with
> DHCP_HOSTNAME between FC6 & current rawhide doesn't show any real
> changes in this area (but it was a quick glance!).
>
> How are you getting the lease? If you're doing an "ifup eth0" or
> starting it via the /etc/init.d/network script I would expect it to
> respect those settings.
>
> If you're using NetworkManager to get the lease, iirc, it ignores the
> ifcfg-eth* files.
>
> Regards,
> Bryn.
>
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As the laptop has also a wireless card I use Network Manager: how do I
pass the name of the card to Network manager??? Maybe I am wrong, but
in F7 I got the name on the leases.
Maybe it was F6??? :-)

Tnx for help

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Antonio Montagnani
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