Re: [gentoo-user] Fake MAC Address Bungling Wireless

[Shawn Haggett <podge@podgeweb.com>]

daid kahl wrote:
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> 2009/2/15 daid kahl <daidxor@gmail.com <mailto:daidxor@gmail.com>>
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>         )On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 20:05 +0900, daid kahl wrote:
>         > I was bored and playing around with macchanger to change my
>         Wireless
>         > MAC address, and wireless has not worked since, even though
>         I'm using
>         > my hardware MAC address again.  I'm usually using
>         NetworkManager, but
>         > I
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> Well, no obvious solutions after 7 hours of actively trying things, so 
> I'll restore from backup. 
>
> For those interested, I deleted files from /var/lib/dhcpbd, and this 
> allowed me to get new IP addresses, but all within the faulty 
> subdomain of California.  I tried on another wireless networks, and 
> still my machine tries to assign me an IP within the California 
> domain.  I reinstalled my entire networking software (short of a 
> kernel recompile), and deleted and remade any network configuration 
> files I could find that might be relevant, and still the problem 
> persisted.   I used wicd to assign myself static IP and DNS with known 
> values that are functional, and then the network was recognized, but I 
> could not access anything. 
>
It's not a California address. It's an IPv4LL address, used when a dhcp 
server can't be found adn is related to the zeroconf useflag the other 
poster mentioned. Read: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_configuration_networking