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From: Nick Stinemates <nick@stinemates.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  dhcpd uses fake MAC address
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On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 02:07:20AM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> My router has big problems assigning the correct IPs to Gentoo boxes. If 
> the NIC in the box has a MAC address of, say, 01:00:12:11:41:49:1e,  
> dhcpd reports something else to router: ff:42:54:59:20:00:1c:21:e0:42:c2
>
> Why is this happening and how do I tell dhcpd not to mess with the MAC  
> address it reports to DHCP servers?

Same experience here. I always thought it was a linux/windows
compatibility problem since that is where I noticed the problem first.