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It's dhcpcd (as alluded to above). And dhcpcd caches the previous address.
I'm not sure why it didn't do a broadcast after the NAK, but killing the
cache solved the problem.

> 
> 	My experience with the tech was when the guy came to the house with
> the cable modem (which I purchased rather than leased) and walked down into
> my basement and came face to face with my rack in my NOC...  I told him he was
> connecting to the mini tower on the top of the rack on the left.  He asked,
> "What does it run, Linux?"  I said "Correct."  He said "I don't think we
> support Linux."  My reply was "Good.  I support Linux.  You support giving
> me a network connection.  Just call these numbers (the MAC addresses) in."
> He did and was amaze when it all simply poped up and worked perfect, first
> shot, when I typed the ifup command.  Repeat a second time a few months
> later at my son's digs.

Many will walk out though given the scenario above. Also they have a browser
based registration now, which is better than waiting 45 minutes on the phone
for the MAC addresses to be provisioned, like one tech I had.

BTW Mike, I believe that your attitude is the right one. But I'm sure that
for every one of you, there are 10 folks who think they can support the
connection, but really can't. That's why the techs are so scripted.

BAJ


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