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 1KttYp-0000EL-RR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:32:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A731E0338; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:32:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF26FE0338 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:32:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id D05AB21CA0C for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:32:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F7DB21C958 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:32:45 +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 38308814 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:32:45 +0200 From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dhcpd uses fake MAC address Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:32:42 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.90 (Linux/2.6.27.3r4; KDE/4.1.71; x86_64; ; ) References: <200810260039.53350.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> 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: <200810260232.42584.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V5.4 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 0d89faaa-d183-4b6a-9132-72a2a9728b25 X-Archives-Hash: e5ed63b2e93996d559326d4821fc715e On Sonntag 26 Oktober 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag 25 Oktober 2008, Nick Stinemates wrote: > >> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 01:34:36PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>> my dhcpd reports the right mac adress (when I try it), so it must be > >>> your fault ;) > >> > >> Could it be a /etc/conf.d/net issue? Mind pasting yours? > > > > yes, because I have a static ip. But it is the usual > > > > config_eth0="... netmask 255.255.255.0" > > routes_eth0="default via ..." > > gateways_eth0="..." > > > > so nothing special there. > > If you have a static IP what do you need a dhcp daemon for? :P I don't need it. But in our network most people use windows - and don't know anything about computers. So they get their static ip assigned by dhcp. Once in a while the server chokes - and that is one of the many reasons why I usually don't use dhcp. There are a lot better ones, but if you really need to know the details, ask off-list ;)