I learned today that AT&T is no longer tracking Mac addresses of Nics. I had two nics registered 1 being a usb. I plugged the usb into the windows machine and called att. We went through the usual steps of multi reboots. The last step was to release and renew the ip lease. I noticed that the hostname is very different then it used to be. It used to be derivatived from the Mac address and now my hostname is jmiller1.ce1.client2.attbi.com. The first is the computer id and the last part is obviously at&t. John Miller Information Services Trade Clearance and Settlement Home Number 763-572-1215 mailto:john.miller at rbcdain.com -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Milam [mailto:chuck at redroot.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 6:00 AM To: 'tclug-list at mn-linux.org' Subject: RE: [TCLUG] HELP AT&T broke my DHCP client! On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Ryan Ware wrote: > Screw nics, put a cable modem router in front of your pc. The d-link > and linksys will be whatever mac address you want them to be. You can change the MAC address of most modern nics in your Linux box like so (filling in the values appropriate for your situation, replace the "??" with the MAC address you need, of course): [root at youboxnamehere] ifconfig eth0 hw ether ??:??:??:??:?? I used to do this for quite some time, until I broke down and bought a Linksys. Been very happy with it. -- Chuck Milam chuck at redroot.org _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list