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Date:      Sun, 12 Jun 2005 21:39:14 -0500
From:      "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@scms.utmb.edu>
To:        Christopher Black <cblack@securecrossing.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: changing network card MAC address
Message-ID:  <200506122139.15123.bdodson@scms.utmb.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1118615522.682.7.camel@localhost>
References:  <200506121726.02494.bdodson@scms.utmb.edu> <1118615522.682.7.camel@localhost>

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On Sunday 12 June 2005 17:32, Christopher Black wrote:
> Check out /etc/dhclient.conf.  The options are described in 'man 5
> dhclient.conf'
>
> On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 17:26 -0500, M. L. Dodson wrote:
> > Just set up a new box (5.4-RELEASE) as a home gateway and had to
> > change the network card MAC address that does DHCP through the
> > cable modem.  I put the following in /etc/rc.early, but this seems
> > inelegant and possibly deprecated.  What is the proper way to do
> > this on a DHCP interface?
> >
> > ifconfig rl1 ether 'aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff'
> >
> > Thanks

Renaming /etc/rc.early to /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks works (as
I am sure renaming it to /etc/start_if.rl1 would have done).  Thanks
for the responses!

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M. L. Dodson                                bdodson@scms.utmb.edu
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