From: Karl Jeacle (karl at domain jeacle.ie)
Date: Mon 15 Jul 2002 - 18:16:54 IST
On Mon 15 Jul 02, 18:08:42 +0100, skyhawk at domain socc.ie wrote:
> I've noticed that if i disconnect and reconnect i have the same ip
> address.
> I only get a different ip address if i reboot the machine before
> reconnecting to the server.
>
> Can anyone explain to me why it only changes to a new ip
> after a reboot?
Are you sure this is always the case? Have you tried this a number of
different times, and at different times of the day? It's possible that
some MAC address caching is going on, but I don't think that's the case.
It's more likely that when you log out and in again quickly, the IP
address that you have released is first back out of the pool. But
when you reboot, someone else has logged on in the meantime and
received your previous IP address.
Karl
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