This doesn't make sense, Win 10 and Linux

Eisberg

Eisberg

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On my network, through the DHCP on my router I assign the MAC address of my desktop to have a static IP, but assigned through the DHCP. My Desktop is the only device on my network that I want to have a static address. On Windows 10 when I keep the network setting to automatically obtain the network IP, gateway, and DNS and it works perfectly.

But when I boot into Linux on the same PC it didn't automatically obtain the proper settings through DHCP, I had to manually put in the IP address, Gateway and the DNS.

Why exactly did Windows 10 work as it should, but the Linux choked on it and made me set it manually?
 
It Eisberged?

What distro? I haven't had that issue for ages.
 
Did you set the installer to update while installing? The times I haven't, I've had adapter issues. Every time I install with updates enabled, detection worked fine.
 
Lazy8s said:
Did you set the installer to update while installing? The times I haven't, I've had adapter issues. Every time I install with updates enabled, detection worked fine.
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I tried, but since it could not see my network it couldn't do updates, and I didn't think about setting it up manually at the time. In the past when I installed Linux I didn't have this issue and the only thing I can think that was different than other times is setting a static IP through the DHCP on my router.
 
Linux (or windows) drivers may be setting a software mac address... A mac override/spoofing thing.

Need to make sure that both os are using the same value and thats the one the router is expecting.
 
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