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I am able to ssh into my new RPi. One of the things I like to do to my infrastructure devices is to go ahead and convert their DHCP assignment to a reservation. My router is a CradlePoint

Firmware Version : 2.0.0, 2012/04/16
WiMAX Version : 4.1.645

I added a reservation, revoked it on the router and did a sudo dhclient -r then sudo dhclient and it picked up yet another IP address instead of the one I had reserved - a full reboot seems to have little effect.

I don't have any other trouble with this router and other devices.

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I also had this problem and I found it was because the MAC address of the Pi was changing whenever it rebooted. Although difficult to pin down a solution, my recommendation would be to upgrade the Pi firmware.

Here is an answer I wrote on how to upgrade the firmware:

How do I update software and firmware?

A lot of issues such as this tend to be firmware related.

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When I ran into a similar problem today (reserved address on the router, but the client would not pick it up) I temporarily changed the DHCP lease time on my router to 30 seconds, waited 30 seconds, then ran the dhclient commands (see original post)

After confirming the client now had the desired IP, I set the router's DHCP lease time back to its previous value (86400 seconds in my case).

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