> On Jul 11, 2015, at 5:22 PM, Chris Buechler <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Doug Lytle <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Everyone,
>> 
>> I talked a small automotive shop into replacing their aging pfSense computer
>> with a GA-J1900N-D3V.  They purchased an all-in-one unit from mini-box.com
>> 
>> http://www.mini-box.com/SYS-M350-Gigabyte-J1900N-D3V-picoPSU-90-60W
>> http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4918#ov
>> 
>> I got it loaded up, restored their 2.2.3 config from the old system and took
>> it over after work the following day.  I ended up spending over an hour
>> trying to get that little system to pick up a DHCP address for their Comcast
>> router.
>> 
>> I finally gave up and put the old system back in.
>> 
>> Working on it today, I've tracked it down to pfSense not being able to spoof
>> their MAC address.  When trying to spoof any address, I get the below (ISC
>> DHCP logs)
>> 
> 
> Is it link cycling on that NIC? What type of NIC is it? There are
> certain NICs that get weird and start link cycling with MAC spoofing
> (possibly plus DHCP client). If that's the case it's not that it's not
> accepting the lease, it is, but then loses link and regains it, which
> triggers another DHCP request as part of the linkup process, which
> cycles link again, rinse and repeat.

According to the spec page he linked to: "      • 2 x Realtek® GbE LAN chips 
(10/100/1000 Mbit)"
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