From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 7 6:51:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-76-217.knology.net [24.214.76.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14FA737B419 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 06:51:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.3/8.11.4) id f77DpQ500681; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 08:51:26 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 08:51:26 -0500 From: David Kelly To: diesel Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: arp doesn't like two NIC's in same subnet on same machine? Message-ID: <20010807085126.D629@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: <004001c11efb$2b5dd9c0$0400000a@zen> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <004001c11efb$2b5dd9c0$0400000a@zen>; from diesel@bsdvault.net on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:41:02AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:41:02AM -0400, diesel wrote: > You can see this often on misconfigured Bridge. I am not sure if you > can do this on FreeBSD but in solaris you can just ifconfig the > interface and assign it another MAC address. This is a feature set of > solaris starting at 2.5. I am unsure of anything similar in any of the > BSD family. Perhaps someone knows for certain? I saw nothing in the > man page about being able to ifconfig a mac address for certain > interfaces. Set the MAC address like this: # ifconfig fxpN lladdr ... very useful for swapping NICs on a cable modem system where the MAC address is used to "authenticate" the connecting computer. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message