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Date:      Fri, 19 Jul 2002 00:13:36 +0200
From:      Hanspeter Roth <hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DHCLIENT problem
Message-ID:  <20020719001336.A26363@gicco.cablecom.ch>
In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGEENCCFAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>; from barbish@a1poweruser.com on Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 05:20:14PM -0400
References:  <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGEENCCFAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>

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  On Jul 18 at 17:20, Joe & Fhe Barbish spoke:

> Ifconfig -a on the NIC device connected to the cable model gives 
> inet 68.65.175.62 broadcast 68.65.175.255 
> 
> Every morning I have these 2 console messages 
> 'DHCLIENT: New Network number : 68.65.175.0' 
> 'DHCLIENT: New Broadcast address : 68.65.175.255' 
> 
> When I issue the ifconfig command in the morning after getting those 
> two messages, I still get inet 68.65.175.62 broadcast 68.65.175.255. 
> 
> 
> I thought the 'DHCLIENT: New Network number : 68.65.175.0' message is 
> telling me that my public ip address has been changed from 
> 68.65.175.62 to 68.65.175.0 

The network number is not the individual IP address of your host.
Your IP address is 68.65.175.62. The DHCLIENT tries to get the same
address it hat last time. The dhcp server might supply the same one
if it's still free.

68.65.175.0 is the address of your host's subnet.

-Hanspeter

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