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On Saturday 17 November 2007, Mick wrote: |
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> In trying to figure out what's happening I noticed that the Linux |
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> machines are registered on the router not with their MAC address |
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> (which is broadcast by dhcpcd as DHCPCHADDR) but with their CLIENTID, |
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> which is a much larger number: |
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> The router compares the CLIENTID with the MAC address I have entered |
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> manually and it does not recognise the box as the one intended. I |
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> tried to specify a MAC address in /etc/conf.d/net.eth0 but it makes no |
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> difference. Any idea why MS Windows machines work fine and Linux do |
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> not? |
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> What can I change to get this going? |
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Did you try the "-I" option to dhcpcd? (man dhcpcd) |
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Set it to your mac address and add the option in the "dhcpcd_eth0 = ..." |
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line in /etc/conf.d/net. |
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If nothing else works, you can try using dhclient or pump (or changing |
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dhcp server!). |
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