[Dnsmasq-discuss] dhcp not working

Simon Kelley simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Fri Aug 28 18:03:51 BST 2009


Schley Andrew Kutz wrote:
> Okay, I just realized that the MAC addresses in the "Request from..."
> lines do not match ANY MAC address on my machine or any MAC address in
> the VM I'm running. That's definitely odd...
> 

Since some DHCP packets are broadcast, they can end up in strange
places. Mac address ranges are allocated to manufacturers, which might
give you some clue as to what's going on.


http://www.coffer.com/mac_find/

will tell you which: it looks like you have one from Dell and one from
Apple there.


Simon.



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