On Saturday 17 November 2007, Mick wrote: > In trying to figure out what's happening I noticed that the Linux > machines are registered on the router not with their MAC address > (which is broadcast by dhcpcd as DHCPCHADDR) but with their CLIENTID, > which is a much larger number: >[cut] > The router compares the CLIENTID with the MAC address I have entered > manually and it does not recognise the box as the one intended. I > tried to specify a MAC address in /etc/conf.d/net.eth0 but it makes no > difference. Any idea why MS Windows machines work fine and Linux do > not? > > What can I change to get this going?
Did you try the "-I" option to dhcpcd? (man dhcpcd) Set it to your mac address and add the option in the "dhcpcd_eth0 = ..." line in /etc/conf.d/net. If nothing else works, you can try using dhclient or pump (or changing dhcp server!). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
