I asked the guy at ATT if they needed to reenter my mac address. He said they are not tracking that and that this "upgrade" eliminates the need for that. To test it out I swapped the cable to a different nic on the windows pc and released and renewed the ips and everything is working. The guy also had me go to 24.34.242.9 to reaquire(?) my modem. After that and renewing the ip leases everything was fine. John Miller Information Services Trade Clearance and Settlement Home Number 763-572-1215 mailto:john.miller at rbcdain.com -----Original Message----- From: Gerald Skerbitz [mailto:gsker at tcfreenet.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 8:16 AM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: RE: [TCLUG] HELP AT&T broke my DHCP client! Since you are talking to them, maybe they still *are* tracking your NIC. Or maybe they override the NIC tracking sometimes. Just because the name doesn't match.... does it really mean they aren't tracking your MAC address? Mine is derived from the IP address. Perhaps that's what my dhcpclient sends as a machine name? How could THAT be? Maybe it's a default. >host zz.yy.xx.www www.xx.yy.zz.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer c-zz-yy-xx-www.mn.client2.attbi.com It could be that I'm not re-provisioned yet, too. If nothing breaks we won't know that it's changed, will we? -- Gerry Skerbitz gsker at tcfreneet.org On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Miller, John wrote: > I learned today that AT&T is no longer tracking Mac addresses of Nics. > I had two nics registered 1 being a usb. I plugged the usb into the > windows machine and called att. We went through the usual steps of > multi reboots. The last step was to release and renew the ip lease. > I noticed that the hostname is very different then it used to be. It > used to be derivatived from the Mac address and now my hostname is > jmiller1.ce1.client2.attbi.com. The first is the computer id and the > last part is obviously at&t. > > John Miller _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list