For linux Mint.
Method 1:
Code:
$ locate dhclient | less
… # find file with *lease
$ locate dhclient | grep -i lease
… …
/var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-e6195e03-3b9c-42ef-8852-5f7426462df8-wlp2s0b1.lease
/var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-ed6abb63-ac60-4a8a-909c-eb593bf9488d-wlp2s0b1.lease
>ls -al /var/lib/NetworkManager
… …
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 982 Apr 18 20:01 dhclient-e6195e03-3b9c-42ef-8852-5f7426462df8-wlp2s0b1.lease
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1118 Apr 26 14:28 dhclient-ed6abb63-ac60-4a8a-909c-eb593bf9488d-wlp2s0b1.lease
/var/lib/NetworkManager $ tail dhclient-ed6abb63-ac60-4a8a-909c-eb593bf9488d-wlp2s0b1.lease
option dhcp-server-identifier 10.0.0.1;
option dhcp-renewal-time 302400;
option broadcast-address 10.0.0.255;
option dhcp-rebinding-time 529200;
option host-name "HP";
option domain-name "hsd1.co.comcast.net";
renew 6 2017/04/29 12:30:41;
rebind 2 2017/05/02 23:28:33;
expire 3 2017/05/03 20:28:33;
So method 1's the DHCP server's IP address is 10.0.0.1 from this:
option
dhcp-server-identifier 10.0.0.1;
Method 2:
Code:
$ sudo grep -R "DHCPOFFER" /var/log/*
[sudo] password for foffb:
( OR this works too: $ sudo grep -Ri "offer" /var/log/* )
/var/log/auth.log:Apr 28 16:16:09 HP sudo: foffb : TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/home/foffb ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/grep -R DHCPOFFER /var/log/alternatives.log /var/log/alternatives.log.1 /var/log/alternatives.log.2.gz /var/log/alternatives.log.3.gz /var/log/alternatives.log.4.gz
... … …
/var/log/fontconfig.log /var/log/fsck /var/log/gateone /var/log/gpu-manager.log
/var/log/syslog:Apr 28 15:38:34 HP dhclient[6430]: DHCPOFFER of 192.168.0.13 from 192.168.0.1
# IP address of DHCP offered correlates to wireless IP address:
>ip addr
… …
3: wlp2s0b1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether e0:2a:82:3c:29:b6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.0.13/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global dynamic wlp2s0b1
In method 2, the DHCP server's IP address is 192.168.0.1.
So why two different results?
Is the DHCP server's IP address 10.0.0.1 incorrect?
Is there a better method to get DHCP's IP address?
