Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1578 mails)

[Lew Wolfgang <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/16/2011 08:34 AM, Ruediger Meier wrote:
> As others have mentioned already the network staff probably wants to
> track what_your_  machine is doing within the network thus they don't
> allow you to use randomized addresses for a good reason.

Yes, this is the case.  The network infrastructure requires that
any device touching the network be pre-registered, with enforcement
implemented with the MAC address.  If your MAC isn't registered you
get placed into an isolated "rogue" VLAN.  Once registered and
connected, the devices are remotely scanned on a regular basis
to insure security compliance and for billing purposes.  There is
apparently a way to configure Windows 7 to not use private addresses,
since those devices are in use on the network.   I hope someone
can figure out how to do the same with openSuSE 12.1!  BTW, I
can't use Arch Linux here either, for reasons I'd rather not go
into.  But Ubutu apparently works...

Regards.
Lew

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