Quoting Michael Conry (michael.conry at gmail.com):
> I studied/worked in UCD for several years, using Linux for about 5.
> Never had any particular problems. Register the MAC address with
> network services and then DHCP will pull down all the necessary
> information.
<evilBOfH>
Or, just sniff the LAN's traffic in promiscuous mode, and then steal
someone else's MAC address and DHCP lease, using /sbin/ifconfig's
"hw ether [MAC]" parameters.
</evilBOfH>
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