Some NIC's can be hacked to report a different MAC address--look it up.
Otherwise, you could try just throwing in another NIC if you have one.
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Darren R. Weber
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 9:16 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: IP address and pump
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>
> Thanks for the other notes here too. I allready know the
> provider. I did an nslookup and got the name associated with
> the IP and it was all too familiar. The IP was also very
> close. . .it is another DSL user with my provider. I intend
> to contact them about the problem, but I was hoping to avoid
> that since they are known to be non-linux friendly and the
> explanation of the problem leads to my use thereof.
>
> Thanks anyway.
> -DRW
>
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 22:20:51 -0400, you wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 08:48:01PM -0400, Michael Burger wrote:
> > > On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 19:44:43 -0400, Darren R. Weber wrote:
> >
> > > >Is there a way to force pump to get a different address?
> Here is the reason I ask.
> >
> > > >I know I can tell it to release, and then restart it but
> it just gets the same address again. I am on DSL and some
> idiot in Miami has apparently set up my IP as a nameserver.
> I have ipchains running and denying almost everything so
> there is no immediate problem, but I also log some packets
> and this stuff is filling my log with garbage every two
> seconds. I have tried to stop this several times in various
> ways, even to the extent of crashing the box on the other
> end. (It's a windows box. . .did a little digging on it
>:-) ) That worked but only temporarily and if I continue
> to do that I'm going to get myself into trouble. So I
> figured the easy thing to do would be to try to get a different IP.
> >
> > > >Is the only way to release my current IP and wait until
> the server has had time to give out the old one?
> >
> > > Pretty much. The thing about DHCP is that the server maintains a
> > > database...that database keeps track of the IP address and the MAC
> > > address to which it was last assigned. It keeps that information
> > > until the lease runs out.
> >
> > Well... I can't say so much about pump, but dhcpcd has
> a release
> > option that specifically issues a RELEASE back to the
> server releasing the
> > lease and returning the address back to the pool. Now...
> That just puts
> > you back to where you started from and that's at the mercy
> of the dhcp
> > server. Next time you request a new lease, it may give you the old
> > address or it may give you a new address. You also have to
> make sure
> > that you blow away anything you have cached on the client
> side (which
> > the release option for dhcpcd does).
> >
> > > The other thing to consider is whether or not your DSL
> provider has
> > > hardcoded your system for that IP.
> >
> > That would be a problem.
> >
> > > The other possibility is that you could call your provider and ask
> > > them to reassign your IP address.
> >
> > I would do a whois on the address of the annoyance and track
> > down his ISP. Send letters of complaint to the ISP, the POC for the
> > address, and several postmasters at the ISP site. Raise enough hell
> > with the administrators responsible for the network he's on and the
> > word will eventually rain down on him. If you don't do
> this, you may
> > get the address released, but that just passes the problem onto the
> > next guy who gets it.
> >
> > Mike
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