On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 11:52, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Okay, all of a sudden my 13 year olds comp refuses to get on the Internet. > This is a system loaded with v9.2 (download editon) of Mandrake. I've got > cablemodem service, with a DLink router. I've always used static ip addresses > and MAC addresses assigned to each comp on the Lan. My 13 year olds is: > > darkforce2.ky.org 192.168.0.101 > > When he boots up, he can ping himself, or any other comp on the LAN. When I > run "ifconfig" as root, it shows his ip address above, and it looks just the > output from ifconfig on the other comps on the LAN (noting of course, the > diff. mac and ip addressess). > > This was a reliably working setup, for over a year now and I can't for the > life of me figure out what changed. He swears that he didn't touch or change > anything. > > I looked at /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and it looks like its > supposed to, identical to the other comps on the LAN, noting the diff. in ip > addressess again. > > Okay, after further scouting around we did notice something really odd. The > hardware address for his NIC is now different than it was before. Why would > this change? I tried going into the config page for my router and changing it > to the new hardware address then restarting everything but it made no > difference. > > Any ideas anyone? Any directions or leads? > > Thanks, a very confused ->
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