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Have two systems with fresh installations of 7.3 and DHCP is enabled but allocating the same address to both machines. I delete the files under /etc/dhcpc to clear the cashe but that does not seem to help. To set this up I was instructed to modify /etc/sysconfig/network to include:
Not running either system as a DHCP server so there is not dhcpd.conf file to post. Network server somewhere is the DHCP server which is out of my control.
If the two machines have different names, I don't see how they can be given the same address. What happens if you have one up on the network, then fire the other up?
Are you sure they have different names set? best check /etc/hosts as well.
Systems come up fine, it is just accessing them via name that is an issue. If I ping system1, would see system2's ip address and vise versa. /etc/hosts only have localhost defined.
one other thing. as some point the /etc/sysconfig/network file for system2 changed magically to have single quotes on the HOSTNAME entry. I remove the quotes then check later and they are back. Is there an application that updates this file?
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