Pump does not allow cloning of the MAC. Also I'm not convinced that the form of the MAC is as you state (based on the logs), however I haven't had a chance to read the RFC today. On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Steve Ellis wrote: >OK, sounds like my problem. How do we clone the IP address Cox sniffed? >I'm using dhcpcd. I assume I'm supposed to use the -I option. >Is the format of the xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx?? It's not documented >on the MAN page for dhcpcd. > >Not sure if pump allows you to clone a MAC address. > >Steve > >-----Original Message----- >From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of John >Kloian III >Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 9:40 AM >To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >Subject: RE: DHCPCD Problems with Cox's new network > > >I think maybe I can verify that. I did the conversion with my windows >box, which in restrospect was a bad idea. since Then i have not been able >to get my firewall to grab an IP. I can put it in statically and pass >traffic. When I use pump and watch the logs this is what I see right >before a timeout: > >xid: 0x63aabbdf4a rejected <-> 0x64aabbddcf > >My suspicion is that this is their dhcp server rejecting my request on >what I can only assume is the MAC address of my NIC. although I cannot >find any decent documentation. > > >On 28 Jan 2002, Craig White wrote: > >>On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 10:32, Jeffrey Pyne wrote: >>> I've been having trouble, as well. I thought I had it all figured out, >but >>> apparently not. I did spend almost 2 hours on hold Saturday morning >>> (listening to Tori Amos or Enya or whomever-- I requested AT LEAST two >songs >>> for the hold music, and the tech support guy replied that many other >people >>> had requested the same thing). >>> >>> Anyway, I found something interesting: I had been having trouble getting >a >>> DHCP lease for the past week. Sometimes I would not get a DHCP_ACK from >>> their server. Other times I would get one and I would get my old @Home >IP >>> address, but then I wouldn't be able to ping my default gateway or >connect >>> to anything on the Internet. When I finally spoke to someone Saturday, I >>> told him that I was getting an IP address of 24.x.y.z, but that I >couldn't >>> connect to anything on the Internet. He said, "Hmmmm, that's an @Home >>> address; you should be getting an IP address that starts with 68." >>> Interesting. He wanted me to look at my "Workgroup" setting, so I >quickly >>> connected my Win98 box to my cable modem and reconfigured it and >rebooted. >>> He had me change the Workgroup to "@COX.NET" and reboot. But while I was >>> futzing around with this, he said a supervisor had just told him that >their >>> "provisioning server" was down and that I would not be able to get an IP >>> address from DHCP until it was back up (oh, and there was no E.T.A.). >After >>> I expressed my displeasure and hung up, I tried rebooting the Win98 box >just >>> for fun. When I did, I immediately got an IP address and could connect >to >>> resources on the Internet. Bizarre. I connected my firewall back up and >>> ran 'dhclient ne0' and I got my old IP address again (even after deleting >>> /var/lib/dhcp.leases, which is an OpenBSD thing)). I tried manually >>> assigning the values I received on my Windows box to my firewall, and >then I >>> could connect. So are they using some DHCP server that only hands out IP >>> addresses for computers in the same "Workgroup?" If so, what about Macs >>> (which they support)? I'm confused.... >>> >>> Also, a guy at work said that he was told this weekend that the old >LANCity >>> modems don't work with the new network (or rather, they work, but only >>> intermittently). (And indeed, http://status.cox.net/view.asp shows that >>> this is an issue.) My co-worker is trading in his modem at a Cox office >>> today. I have a LANCity modem, too. I think I'll trade it in just for >the >>> hell of it. What kind of modem do you have? >>> >>> ~Frustrated in Phoenix >>---------- >>I thought that someone mentioned that the new cox setup changes from a >>hostname authentication to a mac address authentication to get dhcp >>service. This would suggest that in the conversion process, the first >>assignment with your cxXXXXXXX-x hostname captured the mac address of >>your network interface and locked it down. Thus switching to another NIC >>(computer/router device) would mean that it can't capture an ip address >>unless you call customer support and they release it. >> >>If this is true, and I haven't verified it, this would make it a bad >>idea to use a windows computer to get the ip address from the dhcp >>server and then switching it out for a linux box. >> >>Craig >> >>________________________________________________ >>See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't >post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. >> >>PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > >/*************************************************************************** >*/ >/ >/ >/ John Kloian III VP Network Operations >/ >/ Opnix, Inc. http://opnix.com >/ >/ >/ >/ .Innovating Internet Intelligence. >/ >/ >/ >/*************************************************************************** >*/ > >________________________________________________ >See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post >to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >________________________________________________ >See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > /****************************************************************************/ / / / John Kloian III VP Network Operations / / Opnix, Inc. http://opnix.com / / / / .Innovating Internet Intelligence. / / / /****************************************************************************/