Package: ifplugd Version: 0.28-2 Severity: normal On my laptop, I use ifplugd for the built-in ethernet adapter. This works very well on my home intranet, where I have no special requirements. However, on the university only registered computers are allowed to do dhcp. The sysadmins deregister a computer if it hasn't been connected for a few months though, and I don't feel like calling them again and again to reregister the laptop. So I use a hwaddress directive in /etc/network/interfaces to impersonate an other computer (which I make sure is switched off). However, this doesn't work with ifplugd.
As a workaround, I do: # /etc/init.d/ifplugd stop # ifconfig eth0 down # ifup eth0 which works fine. However, with ifplugd the interface is assigned its real hardware address, so it gets refused by the university server. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages ifplugd depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.72 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdaemon0 0.10-1 lightweight C library for daemons Versions of packages ifplugd recommends: ii ifupdown 0.6.7 high level tools to configure netw -- debconf information: * ifplugd/interfaces: eth0 * ifplugd/hotplug_interfaces: usb0 * ifplugd/args: -q -f -u0 -d10 -w -I -b * ifplugd/suspend_action: stop -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
