Doh!
Thanks, David. Re-running the win4lin startup script made
this work.
As stated in the document in the knowledgebase, I specified
only the last four pairs, without any punctuation marks
between the pairs. Now DHCP works.
David Peet wrote:
>
> You need to restart the vnet daemon to have it take the change.
> Currently the easist way to do this is to run (as root) the Win4Lin
> system start script, /etc/rc.d/init.d/Win4Lin
> Of course rebooting is also an option for those that don't want to
> type too much. :)
>
> =David
>
> Bill Gurley wrote:
> >
> > Bob Jones wrote:
> > >
> > > to manually set the vnet/merge MAC address, edit the /etc/default/merge
> > > file and change the MERGE_VNET_MACRANGE_START and _END lines from 'auto'
> > > to the MAC address you wish to use (use the first 4 pairs from your ethX
> > > in linux and just change the last 2 pair of numbers). example - linux
> > > MAC = 00:A0:CC:E8:XX:YY
> > > MERGE_VNET_MACRANGE_START=00:A0:CC:E8:XX:00
> > > MERGE_VNET_MACRANGE_END=00:A0:CC:E8:XX:02
> > >
> > > save the merge file, and open win4lin .. if you run winipcfg you should
> > > now see a MAC address that falls withing the macrange settings - this
> > > should now be different mac address from your linux mac address which is
> > > all that matters. you can also (I think) use the same mac address for
> > > both the start and end addresses in the merge file to match the address
> > > that your license is for (providing that its a different address from
> > > the linux ethernet mac address).
> >
> >
> > Has anybody actually gotten this to work?? I have tried and
> > tried. I found a support document on the Netraverse
> > knowledge base that describes this a little bit differently
> > from Bob's description above. It is document Reference #
> > 010606-000083. I have tried it both ways, and even
> > completely removed win4lin, reinstalled, re-installed
> > Windows 98se, and edited the /etc/default/merge file.
> > Everytime I run winipcfg I get the same MAC address. no
> > change.
> >
> > -Bill-
> >
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