[Gllug] DHCP weirdness
Rev Simon Rumble
simon at rumble.net
Fri Sep 21 11:30:52 UTC 2001
On Fri 21 Sep, Rob Andrews made the following spurious claims:
> There's other things to consider too. If you're using one of those funky
> secure switches, it may be that the switch has port security turned on,
> which disables the port if the MAC address is not that of the one it's
> expecting. Since vmware creates a special MAC address for the virtual
> network bridge, this could be the case.
That would definitely be the problem _except_ that the adapter works
just fine and dandy when I use a randomly selected IP address.
Packets in and out, no problems.
Very weird. I don't really have time to get to the bottom of it so I
think I'll just get assigned a static IP.
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Rev Simon Rumble <simon at rumble.net>
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