Hi all,
Thanks David. I installed a deb of that macchanger and tested it this morning. I connected this morning and got the same IP address as yesterday and couldnt get out. I bought down the eth0 interface, used macchanger to fake a new mac addr, bought up eth0 and was able to browse external web pages again. I could see also that I had been given a new IP addr. Hence prob solved and I am still waiting for someone in IT to respond to my logged help request :-)
(ummmm .... do I mention that I am using a faked mac addr ??)
Michael Lake wrote:Today the UTS is blocking web access from my laptop with a web page saying my system can access the web again after I have had the virus removed. I have put a IT request in but I'd like to work out some things myself. I thought that as I get an IP address at boot time I might have got an IP address that was last used by a Windows machine with a virus and that IP has been blocked
Im using dhcpclient on a Debian machine. Reading the dhcpclient man pages don't suggest that I can ask for a new address. If I just bring down eth0 and bring it up again I get the same address. Can I force somehow a different address or is that beyond a clients power ?
David Gillies wrote:
Probably not the best way to go about it, but changing the MAC address of your nic should make the DHCP server issue you a new IP address.
I guess a program like this could help:
http://www.alobbs.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=macc&file=index
Thanks, I can't miss my slashdot :-) Mike
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