Frank Cox wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2007 15:14:32 -0500 > "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> One thing to be careful about is that you use the same NIC for all >> the tests. Just about every Cable/DSL modem I have run into will >> "remember" the first NIC it gave the DHCP lease to, and will not >> give one to a different NIC unless you power-cycle it. > > Now that is most interesting, as he has a computer with Windows XP on it and > another with Fedora Core 6 and a router on it (the one that I just set up). > If you can "clone" the MAC address of the XP machine, you will probably be able to have DHCP work on the Linux machine. (The MACADDR= option should work for this.) This is why most of the "home" firewall/routers have some type of set or clone MAC address option. If you are configuring the firewall/router from the same PC as you configured the modem, all it takes is one click to clone the MAC address the modem is expecting. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
