On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 05:24:57PM +0000, Andy Hawkins wrote:
> In article <20130807164822.GA7727@tuzo>,
> Sean Alexandre<s...@alexan.org> wrote:
> > No, unfortunately. I know it's not a MAC address issue. Both my TP-LINK home
> > router and the Debian Wheezy machine that works get DHCP leases without any
> > problems, and have different MAC addresses.
> >
> > I also asked my ISP about this, when I had them on the line to bring up my
> > new cable modem. They said any MAC address is fine. Just power the cable
> > modem down for 30 seconds first.
> 
> Ok, I did say I was kind of stating the obvious!
> 
> Next thing I'd be doing is using tshark or similar to sniff the traffic
> being seen on the Debian box.

OK, thanks, that's where I was headed, but was hoping it was something more
obvious. I can get a tcpdump, but don't know DHCP very well. I'll take a look,
though, and see what I can figure out.


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