Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 13:56:32 -0400 From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com> To: "Eric Six" <erics@sirsi.com>, "Brett Cates" <bcates513@hotmail.com> Cc: "FBSDQ" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Changing MAC Address Message-ID: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGMEPCCEAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <DC32C8CEB3F8D311B6B5009027DE5AD5046FA8E0@stlmail.dra.com>
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You miss-read the problem. His cable provider gave him the PCI cable modem card to use on their cable network. The cable provider only uses the Mac address of that card on their cable network. His pc is so old it was mfg'ed before there were PCI busses on the motherboard. He is SOL unless the cable service also has ISA cable modem cards that they will exchange. So what I said in my reply to him is correct. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Eric Six Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 1:08 PM To: 'barbish@a1poweruser.com'; Brett Cates Cc: FBSDQ Subject: RE: Changing MAC Address >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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