Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 08:51:26 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: diesel <diesel@bsdvault.net> 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> In-Reply-To: <004001c11efb$2b5dd9c0$0400000a@zen>; from diesel@bsdvault.net on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:41:02AM -0400 References: <NOEJJDACGOHCKNCOGFOMMEDFDAAA.davids@webmaster.com> <004001c11efb$2b5dd9c0$0400000a@zen>
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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
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