Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 22:00:23 -0700 From: Thomas Smith <tom@openadventures.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MAC Addr Cloning Message-ID: <3F484667.3000909@openadventures.org> In-Reply-To: <20030824032149.GA91881@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3F48297A.7010806@openadventures.org> <20030824032149.GA91881@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson wrote: >In the last episode (Aug 23), Thomas Smith said: > > >>I have a Cox Internet connection that I currently use a Netgear >>router with. I'd like to hook my FreeBSD box to that connection and >>use it instead. The problem is that Cox provisions accounts and if >>the MAC address changes they have to be called to reprovision the >>account. >> >>What I'd like to do is configure one of my NICs to clone the MAC of >>the router. How is this done in FreeBSD? >> >> > >ifconfig fxp0 ether 01:02:03:04:05:06 > Excellent! This worked. What I was doing wrong was including the "ether" value as part of a complete string. For example: ifconfig dc0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 This would return an error. This appearently has to do with the layer the MAC works on versus the IP--since they're on different layers I have to configure them seperately. Thanks for the input. Thanks also to the other poster, Louis LeBlanc. FYI to Louis: If you add a line, as follows, in your /etc/rc.conf you can be ride of the "start_if.x10" file. ifconfig_x10="ether 00:00:00:00:00:00" I thought this may prove useful to you.
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