Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 12:25:31 -0500 (CDT) From: Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net> To: Brett Cates <bcates513@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing MAC Address Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207081224150.81370-100000@cody.jharris.com> In-Reply-To: <F223YBr4BvRnfvcySa40000bf7a@hotmail.com>
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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 <nick@rogness.net> - 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
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