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OK, I need to get my IP via a LAN from a DHCP Server. Win is working, so the hardware is ok. Neither pump nor dhcpcd is getting anywhere, so now I run dhclient. For it to work I need to change the MAC w/which it connects to the Server as I am registered there w/ a different MAC address than I have right now. So in which config file can I change the MAC address?
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
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To change the MAC address of your NIC you would use ifconfig. Note that this will not work with some distrubutions or drivers and is usually not recommended.
I am running RH 6.2. and one of the cheap RTL 8139. I changed the MAC already when I tried the pump command, so that should be the same then...
So exactly what do you recommend? Where is the most likely source of error?
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