[NTLUG:Discuss] Fedora core 4 can not detect IP

[Terry Henderson]

On 6/20/06, m m <llliiilll at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> >From: "David Simmons" <dave at dgnal.net>
> >Don't know if someone has shared this already (as I haven't read the whole
> >thread) - but many cable providers only want you to use one computer...and
> >they 'key' your machine by it's MAC address...so when you plugged in the
> >new machine (probably with a different network card) the MAC address was
> >different.  You can specify the MAC address of the new card (to be the MAC
> >address of the old one) and then try to re-connect.
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> Are you sure that you can can specify the MAC address of the new card (to be
> the MAC address of the old one)?
> >From I want I understand ( I may wrong), the MAC address was assigned on the
> NIC when it it was made.
> Any one can clearify?
> Thanks.
>

You can change it, and clone the old one to the new machine:

 ifconfig [interface name] hw ether [new MAC address]

i.e.

 [root]# ifconfig eth0 hw ether 01:02:03:04:05:06


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> >for more detailed info, check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_address
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> >Hope that helps,
> >
> >dave
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