Why would a local network unit's ip number change?

[Eric Cope]

Do you have DHCP enabled? Try assigning static IP addresses.
Eric

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 10:08 AM, <joe at actionline.com> wrote:

>
> I had rsync working fine between two computers on my local network, but
> then it just quit working even though I had made no changes in either
> computer.
>
> This is the error message I saw:
> ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.73 port 22: No route to host
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(601)
> [sender=3.0.7]
> ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.73 port 22: No route to host
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
> rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(601) [sender=3.0.7]
>
> Upon investigating, I found that the ip number on the "73" computer was
> changed from 192.168.0.73 to 192.168.1.106.  I tried changing the
> destination address to "1.106" on the sending computer and that also did
> not work.  So I rebooted the destination computer and found that the ip
> number was restored to "0.73" again.
>
> What would cause the ip number to have changed like that and how can I
> prevent that from occurring again in the future?
>
>
>
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