From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 10: 9:17 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 3EE3C37B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 10:09:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aberlour1.sirsi.com (aberlour.sirsi.com [150.147.64.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C15CB43E31 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 10:09:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erics@sirsi.com) Received: from stlmail.dra.com (stlmail.dra.com [192.65.218.119]) by aberlour1.sirsi.com (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g68GwXtR015265; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 11:58:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: by stlmail.dra.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <3F511B1J>; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 12:08:09 -0500 Message-ID: From: Eric Six To: "'barbish@a1poweruser.com'" , Brett Cates Cc: FBSDQ Subject: RE: Changing MAC Address Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 12:08:08 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 >The PC you want to use for your gateway/router is just to dam old and >there is nothing you can do about it with the card your cable >service sent you. This defeats the whole idea of being able to reuse old hardware now doesn't it? Might as well say, "Hey, go spend $1500 on a new computer an use windows instead." Exchange the nic card for an ISA card with your ISP or go to a computer store and buy a ISA card. You can pick them up for less then $20. As for changing the MAC address, man dhcpclient.conf. I beleive there is an option for actually adding the mac address for a specific entity. Cheers, Eric -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Brett Cates Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 11:57 AM To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Changing MAC Address Hi, Basically, I am trying to setup a firewall on my cable modem, but the cable company has made it to where the DHCP server will only serve requests from a specific MAC address. The cable company's tech support is kinda being jerks about setting up a firewall, because I guess they want more money for multiple PC's using the Internet. =P I can't switch NIC's because they are different bus types (The NIC is PCI but my router is a 486 w/ ISA only). Is there a way that FreeBSD can send the DHCP server another MAC address instead of the one on the card? I have seen a few posts around that say Linux and FreeBSD can do it, but they don't really say how. Any help will be most appreciated! Thanks, Brett _________________________________________________________________ Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message