From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 9:55:46 2002 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 96E2937B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:55:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cody.jharris.com (cody.jharris.com [205.238.128.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECC2643E3B for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:55:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by cody.jharris.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g68HPVN81708; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 12:25:31 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 12:25:31 -0500 (CDT) From: Nick Rogness X-Sender: nick@cody.jharris.com To: Brett Cates Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing MAC Address In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Brett Cates wrote: > > > Hi, > > Basically, I am trying to setup a firewall on my cable modem, but > the cable company has made it to where the DHCP server will only serve > requests from a specific MAC address. The cable company's tech > support is kinda being jerks about setting up a firewall, because I > guess they want more money for multiple PC's using the Internet. =P I > can't switch NIC's because they are different bus types (The NIC is > PCI but my router is a 486 w/ ISA only). Is there a way that FreeBSD > can send the DHCP server another MAC address instead of the one on the > card? I have seen a few posts around that say Linux and FreeBSD can > do it, but they don't really say how. Any help will be most > appreciated! Also may want to look at `man dhclient.conf`. More specifically, the 'send dhcp-client-identifier MAC_ADDRESS'. Nick Rogness - Don't mind me...I'm just sniffing your packets To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message