dhclient && dhcpcd issues solved

[acid45]

Well I had the following setup.

Windows Box

Slackware Windows dual boot

Linksys Wireless router
-dhcp 2 IP


When I had that setup the only way I could get access to the internet is as follows:

Shut down the dual boot box.

Go to the windows box and delete the lease entrey from the router it's not using.

Boot the dual boot box.

Boot into slackware

Repeat if you log into windows.

Now, that's a lot of work just to be able to go play a few games. The way I found to fix this was by adding another IP to the DHCP list.

It's just something about 3 IPs and only 2 boxes that bugs me. That means that no matter what, there is always a key not in use, BUT from my issues from getting IP's from my router. The IP requested cannot have a lease, active or not, for another machine. Although I'm sure MAC Cloning can get by this.

Now the questions.

So if this is my issue I'm having is there another method to solve this problem? I have the router MAC filter to allow only my MAC, I don't have security, I'm adding it all in layers. I'd rather not leave an IP open at all times on a wireless router.

[acid45]

Hmm, I seem to have been wrong. Adding a new IP gaves me access to that IP once and deleteing IP leases doesn't seem to be how I recieved a DHCP address.

I'm setting them statically so I can create a route to the dhcp server/router. I don't know what I'm looking for and once you make queries in google so big it stops returning answers.

I'm lost I don't know what I'm looking for. I seem to have an iade of what's going on. I can only get my DHCP router to assign me a lease for an IP and once I reboot, wether I have a valid old lease or not, I still won't get a lease the second time around.

I've checked the lease tables while I'm trying to get an IP and it says no leases for that IP. Even if time hasn't passed to expire the lease.

This is all my prespective on what is happening. I'm open to ideas, I don't know where to look anymore. Everywhere I look says recheck my config. First of all I have nothing to check it against what it's giving me, which is 100% the same. Second of all obviously there is other things to be checked.

I've checked my MAC addresses, both under XP and slackware, they match. I checked my routers settings under xp. I have disabled MAC filtering, no luck. I've done everything I can find and I don't know what my issue is that I'm looking for a solution to.