Okay. I have RH 5.1 running on my machine. To connect to my school's network, it needs to use DHCP to acquire its IP address. In general, this works just fine. But after a while, my network connection suddenly shuts down. I've asked the network guys here, and they say that my part has become "partitioned" -- that they get two different hardware addresses for my network card, which causes my connection to be terminated. Another (amller) problem is that I get assigned a different IP address when I boot up in Linux than with Win95 (my Win95 IP has been the same for several months -- our IPs aren't really that "dynamic." ;) ) Anyway, my question is this: I there a way to tell Linux what the hardware address of my network card is, rather than letting it figure it out on its own? Or some other way that this problem could be solved? Thanks, Brian Dunnette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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