a new box not refreshing DHCP lease (or something like that)

[tv007]

I've installed a new box at home, works perfectly except for one thing - after a few hours, the router loses track about the IP address / hostname so I can't access it. The machine seems to be fine (there is stuff running locally), except that it's unreachable. I do have another gentoo box connected right next to it, and that one works fine. The funny thing is this is a supermicro motherboard with IPMI, and that IP is reachable all the time. Moreover, the IPMI works over the same ethernet port (so there are two IP addresses). Not sure if that's related.

The interface is configured to use dhcp

[Ant P.]

Try running /etc/init.d/dhcpcd directly instead of using the net initscripts?

[tv007]

Aha! That might be it - I forgot to enable the service using rc-update (it was enabled on the other machine which was working OK). Let's see if this fixes it.

[UberLord]

Remember to remove net.eno1 from any runlevels as well.
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