Re: DHCP!

[Chadley Wilson <chadley pinteq co za>]

When you changed hardware the system probably had the card in it
(correct me if I m wrong!) This could cause this to happen.
To fix simply redetect your netork card and configure it.
Good Luck!

Chad
On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 20:01, Nelson Guedes Paulo Junior wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've copied my hard drive to another hard drive using dd. The machines
> are almost the same, but the first one was from another person. After
> the copy, I've noticed that the machine was working in the network, wich
> seems impossible because I have a DHCP server witch atribute IP address per
> MAC address. 
> 
> After that I've noticed that the file ifcfg-eth0 on my system had the followwing
> line:
> 
> HWADDR=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
> 
> And the MAC in there, was the MAC of the NIC of the first machine, not
> the one I'm running now.
> 
> My question is, it's not a security flaw let someone change the MAC that
> way???
> 
> Thanks!
> []'s
> 
> 
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