On Samstag 25 Oktober 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Nick Stinemates wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 02:07:20AM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> My router has big problems assigning the correct IPs to Gentoo boxes. If > >> the NIC in the box has a MAC address of, say, 01:00:12:11:41:49:1e, > >> dhcpd reports something else to router: ff:42:54:59:20:00:1c:21:e0:42:c2 > >> > >> Why is this happening and how do I tell dhcpd not to mess with the MAC > >> address it reports to DHCP servers? > > > > Same experience here. I always thought it was a linux/windows > > compatibility problem since that is where I noticed the problem first. > > Nope, it only happens with the dhcpd of Gentoo. Other Linux boxes > report the correct MAC address.
my dhcpd reports the right mac adress (when I try it), so it must be your fault ;)
