On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 21:52, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Okay, all of a sudden my 13 year olds comp refuses to get on the Internet. > This is a system loaded with v9.2 (download editon) of Mandrake. I've got > cablemodem service, with a DLink router. I've always used static ip addresses > and MAC addresses assigned to each comp on the Lan. My 13 year olds is: > > darkforce2.ky.org 192.168.0.101 > > When he boots up, he can ping himself, or any other comp on the LAN. When I > run "ifconfig" as root, it shows his ip address above, and it looks just the > output from ifconfig on the other comps on the LAN (noting of course, the > diff. mac and ip addressess). > > This was a reliably working setup, for over a year now and I can't for the > life of me figure out what changed. He swears that he didn't touch or change > anything. > > I looked at /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and it looks like its > supposed to, identical to the other comps on the LAN, noting the diff. in ip > addressess again. > > Okay, after further scouting around we did notice something really odd. The > hardware address for his NIC is now different than it was before. Why would > this change? I tried going into the config page for my router and changing it > to the new hardware address then restarting everything but it made no > difference. > > Any ideas anyone? Any directions or leads? >
Does he have onboard 10/100 and is it a Broadcomm chip? Seems I remember reading that the mac addresses for onboard stuff could be changed...somewhere. I thought it interesting at the time but right now I can't remember exactly what the context was. Check the route via the route command and make sure he has the right gateway. Don't depend on the config files, use "route" and see what's there from the command line. LX
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