Every time my wife wants to use the internet on her phone and it doesn’t work, she restarts the router and then surprise surprise the server swaps IP addresses, now I haven’t looked in to it to much but I fully suspect that the issue is that the server IP address I am using, is for some reason being DHCP assigned to her phone. When I switch the server back to the fixed IP her phone stops working.
So I see 2 options.
1) No wife at home using the internet on her phone
2) Work out how to assign the server an IP address which doesn’t also get leased via DHCP
3) Fix the linux control pannel so it never defaults to “Auto”
I think I have found the cause of why it's happening more often
Every time my wife wants to use the internet on her phone and it doesn’t work, she restarts the router and then surprise surprise the server swaps IP addresses, now I haven’t looked in to it to much but I fully suspect that the issue is that the server IP address I am using, is for some reason being DHCP assigned to her phone. When I switch the server back to the fixed IP her phone stops working.
So I see 2 options.
1) No wife at home using the internet on her phone
2) Work out how to assign the server an IP address which doesn’t also get leased via DHCP
3) Fix the linux control pannel so it never defaults to “Auto”
I’ll try 2 & 3 first ;-)