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Andrea Giuliano wrote: | Why do you need to know the MAC address of your NIC? Usually it is | probed by system-config-network.
Network security devices can prevent access to a network by preventing unknown mac addresses from connecting.
I would expect he has to tell the sysadmin his mac address before the sysadmin gives him an IP address.
- -- Regards Phil Hannent
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