Re: yikes! MAC address changed ??

2010-02-11 Thread James Smallacombe
Sorry for replying to myself (AND top-posting!) twice in a row, but this is become a huge concern. My first thought is that my provider changed routers or router Ethernet ports, hence the MAC address change. They deny this, plus I find the two MAC addresses: 00:17:e0:4f:b9:c0 to

Re: yikes! MAC address changed ??

2010-02-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 11/02/2010 11:00, James Smallacombe wrote: Sorry for replying to myself (AND top-posting!) twice in a row, but this is become a huge concern. My first thought is that my provider changed routers or router Ethernet ports, hence the MAC address change. They deny this, plus I find the two

Re: yikes! MAC address changed ??

2010-02-11 Thread James Smallacombe
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 11/02/2010 11:00, James Smallacombe wrote: Sorry for replying to myself (AND top-posting!) twice in a row, but this is become a huge concern. My first thought is that my provider changed routers or router Ethernet ports, hence the MAC address

Re: yikes! MAC address changed ??

2010-02-11 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 11/02/2010 11:00, James Smallacombe wrote: Sorry for replying to myself (AND top-posting!) twice in a row, but this is become a huge concern. My first thought is that my provider changed routers or router Ethernet ports, hence the MAC address change. They deny this, plus I find the two

Re: yikes! MAC address changed ??

2010-02-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 11/02/2010 12:22, James Smallacombe wrote: It's not 'arp -s' that is used to change the MAC address on an interface, but ifconfig(8) -- something like this: # ifconfig re0 ether 00:17:e0:4f:b9:c0 See my second post. I screwed up in my first post. It wasn't the MAC address of my NIC

Mac address changed ??

2010-02-10 Thread James Smallacombe
This freaked me out a bit, so I'm just running it past the list to make sure this is just a hardware issue...I've never seen it before. My dedicated server provider replaced my defective server that had been up for 6 months after it had apparent failures of a NIC and hard drives. It had

Re: Mac address changed ??

2010-02-10 Thread James Smallacombe
Please disregard this...sleep deprication...the IP in questions (which I should have disfuised anyway) was not my server's IP, but that of the default gateway...the problem was external. On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, James Smallacombe wrote: This freaked me out a bit, so I'm just running it past