Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 14:04:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Drew <usernumber1000@yahoo.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No connection is killing me Message-ID: <20001004210421.24616.qmail@web9205.mail.yahoo.com>
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Thank you very much. Is this a new function of ifconfig in 4.1.1? I have a 4.0 box and a 4.1.1 box, and lladdr is in the 4.1.1 man page but not the 4.0. Oh well time to upgrade. Thanks again. Andrew --- Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> wrote: > * Drew <usernumber1000@yahoo.com> [001004 11:48] > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a cable modem that maps my mac to my IP. > My > > nic died and I cannot get online with the new one > > until my ISP updates there db. (They are very slow > > about these things). How would one spoof his mac > in > > FreeBSD. I searched all around and can find > nothing > > about this. Please help me get back online at > home, > > I'm going crazy over here. Thanks a million. > > from the ifconfig manpage: > > lladdr addr > Set the link-level address on an > interface. This can be used to > e.g. set a new MAC address on an > ethernet interface, though the > mechanism used is not > ethernet-specific. The address addr is > specified as a series of > colon-separated hex digits. If the in- > terface is already up when this option > is used, it will be > briefly brought down and then brought > back up again in order to > insure that the receive filter in the > underlying ethernet hard- > ware is properly reprogrammed. > > -Alfred __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! http://photos.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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