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 1LYgiK-0003OW-AE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:07:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C5BC4E041B; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:07:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from speedy.podgeweb.com (podgeweb.com [203.122.247.111]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69DC4E041B for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:07:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (speedy.podgeweb.com [127.0.0.1]) by speedy.podgeweb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE691C58CC for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:37:11 +1030 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at podgeweb.com Received: from speedy.podgeweb.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (speedy.podgeweb.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id cjGJKHqTRu6d for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:37:08 +1030 (CST) Received: from [192.168.0.31] (venus.podgeweb.com [192.168.0.31]) by speedy.podgeweb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE62AC511D for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:37:08 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <4998137F.4090509@podgeweb.com> Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:37:11 +1030 From: Shawn Haggett User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fake MAC Address Bungling Wireless References: <3ac129340902140305u5da7615asf2c4c7a3b329a48f@mail.gmail.com> <1234610592.15611.3.camel@rattus> <3ac129340902142251me59bb4flfa38491d78d14fa@mail.gmail.com> <3ac129340902150158x3a70e694o2c260521bd8dfe69@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3ac129340902150158x3a70e694o2c260521bd8dfe69@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 56e4ee27-ea2a-4a42-8c84-36cd60e4432f X-Archives-Hash: 5a013c9202cb8280dc877b1a7f7b151b daid kahl wrote: > > > 2009/2/15 daid kahl > > > )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 > > > 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