Re: [Gumstix-users] Newbie DHCP...

[James L. <ja...@ti...>]

On 22/03/2012, at 11:39 PM, gum...@li... wrote:

> I have an OveroFE/Tobi. I have the Tobi connected to our network with an
> Ethernet cable. The ip address is assigned automatically through DHCP.
> However, it appears that it is assigned an address that is in use on our
> system (a printer).
> 
> 
> 
> What can I do to get it to use a unique ip address? Also, it looks like
> it is using eth2 instead of eth0. Is this normal?
> 
> 
> 
> Here is the output from an ifconfig command:
> 
> 
> 
> eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:C9:28:F2:EE
> 
>          inet addr:192.168.101.54  Bcast:192.168.101.255
> Mask:255.255.255.0
> 
>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> 
>          RX packets:7632 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> 
>          TX packets:629 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> 
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> 
>          RX bytes:923569 (901.9 KiB)  TX bytes:68489 (66.8 KiB)
> 
>          Interrupt:80

Get and use wireshark on a machine on your network. (perhaps the dhcp server)
It is easy to use

Your gumstix might request an address it once had (the printers address)
but the server should refuse
offer a vaild address
gumstix requests the valid address
server says OK kewl

So the issue is NOT gumstix but is your dhcp server
James