From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 13 15:57:10 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 3B10A16A41C for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:57:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bivol@bivol.net) Received: from mail.hostmansion.com (mail.hostmansion.com [69.42.139.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E933243D53 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:57:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bivol@bivol.net) Received: from [216.158.144.61] (mail.hostmansion.com [69.42.139.9]) by mail.hostmansion.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 856D611C028; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 01:31:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42ADACE1.8070008@bivol.net> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:57:21 +0300 From: Peter User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: john@day-light.com References: In-Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MAC address & rc.conf X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:57:10 -0000 I am also curios and I will found out :) Peter John Brooks wrote: just curious... what happens when your 'router' and your 'laptop' both have the same MAC address? -- John Brooks [1]john@day-light.com -----Original Message----- From: [2]owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [[3]mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Bob Bomar Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:42 AM To: Peter; [4]questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MAC address & rc.conf -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter wrote: | Hi, | My ISP have aauthorization by username, password AND mac address. | I currently make PPPoE connection from my laptop(win XP) to them. | However I want to put FreeBSD router in front of my laptop. | That is why I will need to make MAC address of outgoing ethernet card | same as my laptop. | I plan to make bash script(ifconfig down, ifconfig up) for that | purpose. | However I prefer a little bit cleaner solution ... | is there any way I can set MAC address for the network card in | rc.conf ? | Thanks :-))) | Kind regards, | Pete | When the system boots, it will read rc.conf, and then it will pass the ifconfig_inf="..." to ifconfig, so what I do is just to add ether aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff to that line: ifconfig_fxp0="inet 1.2.3.4 netmask 255.0.0.0 ether aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff" - -- Bob Bomar [5]bob@bomar.us [6]http://www.bomar.us/~bob -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - [7]http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCralK9Jm/aTrtdKoRAlFFAJ93Y0XL7OMbJcdhFvBxQP3XEtzP6QCeOHIQ 8m1uyAMjW8F1SW0E/HNYFBA= =d5HD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ [8]freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list [9]http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [10]"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ [11]freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list [12]http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [13]"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org " References 1. mailto:john@day-light.com 2. mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 3. mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 4. mailto:questions@freebsd.org 5. mailto:bob@bomar.us 6. http://www.bomar.us/~bob 7. http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ 8. mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 9. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions 10. mailto:freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org 11. mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 12. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions 13. mailto:freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org