Re: MAC address changes on every boot

2015-04-30 Thread Bill Oliver
On Thu, 30 Apr 2015, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 09:24:32 -0700 Randy Wyatt wrote: Any ideas? I've had at least two separate linksys NIC cards die like this. The MAC would be randomly different on each power cycle. I chucked those cards in the recycle bin :-). If these are built

Re: MAC address changes on every boot

2015-04-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 09:24:32 -0700 Randy Wyatt wrote: > Any ideas? I've had at least two separate linksys NIC cards die like this. The MAC would be randomly different on each power cycle. I chucked those cards in the recycle bin :-). If these are built in ethernet ports, perhaps the motherboard

Re: MAC address changes on every boot

2015-04-30 Thread Boris Epstein
What hardware do you have in your machine? I've seen some NIC's with bad firmware that lose their MAC address assignment. Boris. On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Randy Wyatt wrote: > > > I am running a fully patched Fedora 21 system. We are trying to give it a > long term lease in the DHCP s

Re: MAC address changes on every boot

2015-04-30 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 04/30/2015 12:24 PM, Randy Wyatt wrote: I am running a fully patched Fedora 21 system. We are trying to give it a long term lease in the DHCP server, but the MAC address sent changes on every boot. The MAC address seen at the DHCP server is not actually valid. If you have a NIC tha

Re: MAC address changes on every boot

2015-04-30 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/30/2015 09:24 AM, Randy Wyatt wrote: I am running a fully patched Fedora 21 system. We are trying to give it a long term lease in the DHCP server, but the MAC address sent changes on every boot. The MAC address seen at the DHCP server is not actually valid. The DHCP server is like Win

MAC address changes on every boot

2015-04-30 Thread Randy Wyatt
I am running a fully patched Fedora 21 system. We are trying to give it a long term lease in the DHCP server, but the MAC address sent changes on every boot. The MAC address seen at the DHCP server is not actually valid. The DHCP server is like Win2008 Server R2. Any ideas? Regards, Randy --