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Subject: Re: MAC Addr Cloning
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Dan Nelson wrote:

>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
>
Excellent! This worked.

What I was doing wrong was including the "ether" value as part of a 
complete string. For example:

ifconfig dc0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ether 00:00:00:00:00:00

This would return an error. This appearently has to do with the layer 
the MAC works on versus the IP--since they're on different layers I have 
to configure them seperately.

Thanks for the input. Thanks also to the other poster, Louis LeBlanc.

FYI to Louis: If you add a line, as follows, in your /etc/rc.conf you 
can be ride of the "start_if.x10" file.

ifconfig_x10="ether 00:00:00:00:00:00"

I thought this may prove useful to you.