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 1KtuRs-0007Iz-Hc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:29:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 68219E02B9; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:29:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ABBEE02B9 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:29:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7A65648D9 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:29:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.475 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.475 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.124, 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 lVl4Vfd1uFr2 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:29:34 +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 F1E22647EC for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:29:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KtuRc-0003nr-SE for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:29:28 +0000 Received: from athedsl-32218.home.otenet.gr ([87.202.126.214]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:29:28 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-32218.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:29:28 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: dhcpd uses fake MAC address Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:29:23 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <200810260039.53350.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <200810260232.42584.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> 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-32218.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 In-Reply-To: <200810260232.42584.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 9d7df1f5-05cd-4bac-b0d2-fa8558ed688c X-Archives-Hash: 7db11aadf3c3a5645137363d34ebc1ae Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > 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 ;) Anyway, maybe it's not a dhcp problem but originates further down the stack. Not sure what I'm looking for though :P