From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 25 8:19: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 004D437B401 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 08:19:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F1B843E3B for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 08:19:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9PFJ4qB030117 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:19:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9PFJ4Mf030114; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:19:04 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing MAC References: <262348486.20021024221201@mail.ru> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 25 Oct 2002 11:19:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <262348486.20021024221201@mail.ru> Message-ID: <44znt2pmvr.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "KHANN(inet)" writes: > I'm stucked with such a problem: > When I'm changing ether adress of my NIC(rl driver,Compex RL8139) > with "ifconfig ether ", pings couldn't be sent. > > What i've tried to do: > Of course, i've read ifconfig's,rl's and route's mans, > but there is no description of how to avoid my problem. > Every time i change my MAC, i delete previous default rote > and add new one(the same). > > When i go to promiscuous mode - all becomes ok. > > Thank's for reading! :) Check the packets themselves, but my guess would be that the router is still holding the old mapping for your address, and so the FreeBSD machine can't do much to fix it. [Other than wait five minutes for the ARP mapping to time out.] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message