dissecting DHCP - Q4

[Simon Hobson]

Defryn, Guy wrote:

>Is there a way to tell which DHCP server issues a lease to a Linux box?
>In Windows I get the info with ipconfig /all.
>In Linux I checked the dhclient.leases file but that almost seems like
>the initial configuration. Currently my lease is coming from the 
>other server and not the
>one specified as dhcp-server-identifier in the dhclient.leases file.

I've just checked on the one box I have with a dynamic address. It's 
running Debian Lenny and the client leases are stored in 
/var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.<ifname>.leases. Looking in there, I see the 
current leases data as I would expect it to be - don't forget that 
you are only interested in the LAST entry in the file.

This will of course vary by distro.

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