It looks like Charles and Dan nailed it.
My ISP seemed to be keying off of the MAC address. When I spoofed the router's MAC address (as per Charles' instructions below), it was able to get a good IP address. It still bugs me, though, that the ISP WAS giving me an IP address, just not a good one. I guess they just didn't want to make it easy on me :) Now, I guess I'll try figuring out how to get my ISP to accept the new MAC address. Or, I guess I can just change the MAC address as the router boots. Thanks for the good ideas, gentlemen. And thanks to Charles for the Dachstein release - wonderfully simple and easy to use. - Gary -----Original Message----- From: Charles Steinkuehler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 8:56 PM To: gc; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] Update: AT&T Transition Woes Since you're getting much different DHCP data using linux instead of windows, you might try to see if you can change some dhcp settings and get something more similar to your working windows config. First try removing any dhcp client leases (in /var/state/dhcp)...shut down dhclient & restart (svi dhclient stop/start). If that doesn't work, try tricking the DHCP server by giving your external interface the same MAC address as the card in your windows box (just make sure you don't have both interfaces on the same ethernet segment...things would get massively confused). You can do this with the ip command (ip link set eth0 address 00:80:c8:ca:ab:11)...repace the MAC address with the right one, of course, and make sure you've cleared any dhclient leases as well... Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
