From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KthPp-0004vF-Sb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:34:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B4A43E02E8; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:34:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.21]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BFF2E02E8 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:34:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B26D21210B for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:34:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 887FE212106 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:34:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [2001:638:605:eea0:219:66ff:fe86:ce12] (account wevah HELO energy.localnet) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.9) with ESMTPSA id 38303226 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:34:40 +0200 From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dhcpd uses fake MAC address Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:34:36 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.90 (Linux/2.6.27.3r4; KDE/4.1.71; x86_64; ; ) References: <20081024235613.GA8595@deviL> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810251334.37058.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V5.4 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: ca93a52c-3111-4099-bbdc-dab76a920b06 X-Archives-Hash: 8424aa74dd22b596fab305e8e83c6eda On Samstag 25 Oktober 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Nick Stinemates wrote: > > 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. > > Nope, it only happens with the dhcpd of Gentoo. Other Linux boxes > report the correct MAC address. my dhcpd reports the right mac adress (when I try it), so it must be your fault ;)