[BLU] Re: More MediaOne woes

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, David Kramer wrote:

> OOooooh! Heap bad mojo!  Either the scripts are trying to do stuff they
> don't have permissions to do (unlikely), or MediaOne's DHCP server is
> royally confused.
> 
> Have you checked the support page to see if there are any reported
> problems in your area?
> 
> In the meantime, I would at lease up the verbosity of the dhcp client and
> chuck the output into a separate file.  It shouldn't even be trying to
> renew very often (I think it's every 60 hours or something like that).

I'll have to give that a try over the weekend. I had the cablemodem
installed on my Macintosh, so I'll have to spoof its mac address on my
laptop.

Looks like the syntax for that is

    ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55

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