Thursday, August 05, 2021

Re: How to troubleshoot DHCP issues?

On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 6:29 AM Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
>
> On 2021-08-03, beebeetles@posteo.de <beebeetles@posteo.de> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Me again on some DHCP-related issues...
> >
> > So I started using OpenBSD as my home router around two weeks ago,
> > running openBSD 6.9. It obtains its IP address from the ISP via
> > DHCP. The setup is pretty simple, just the following two lines in
> > my hostname.if file:
> >
> > lladdr random
>
> Why this line?

I was wondering the same thing. What problem do you think you are
solving by doing this? Because by doing this the DHCP server thinks
you are a new system so you will get a new IP address.

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