Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 12:08:08 -0500 From: Eric Six <erics@sirsi.com> To: "'barbish@a1poweruser.com'" <barbish@a1poweruser.com>, Brett Cates <bcates513@hotmail.com> Cc: FBSDQ <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Changing MAC Address Message-ID: <DC32C8CEB3F8D311B6B5009027DE5AD5046FA8E0@stlmail.dra.com>
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>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
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