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 1KtVku-0005IY-BF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:07:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ED32FE0306; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:07:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4BA1E0306 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:07:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29D27648C9 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:07:42 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.398 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.398 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.201, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id bg+8YHwcRBbO for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:07:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 673E76484C for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:07:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KtVkd-0008F4-AE for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:07:27 +0000 Received: from athedsl-48408.home.otenet.gr ([87.203.166.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:07:27 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-48408.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:07:27 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] dhcpd uses fake MAC address Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:07:20 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: 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; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-48408.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080421 Thunderbird/2.0.0.14 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: a411ab74-cba0-4a88-a6ea-9a5e8f5ff828 X-Archives-Hash: aee08d91fef23f566f96269000b7eeb3 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?