From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 23 20:21:55 2003 Return-Path: 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 04CDD16A4BF for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2003 20:21:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 551E543FE0 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2003 20:21:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h7O3LnMi039495; Sat, 23 Aug 2003 22:21:49 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 22:21:49 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Thomas Smith Message-ID: <20030824032149.GA91881@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3F48297A.7010806@openadventures.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F48297A.7010806@openadventures.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MAC Addr Cloning X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 03:21:55 -0000 In the last episode (Aug 23), Thomas Smith said: > I have a Cox Internet connection that I currently use a Netgear > router with. I'd like to hook my FreeBSD box to that connection and > use it instead. The problem is that Cox provisions accounts and if > the MAC address changes they have to be called to reprovision the > account. > > What I'd like to do is configure one of my NICs to clone the MAC of > the router. How is this done in FreeBSD? ifconfig fxp0 ether 01:02:03:04:05:06 -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com