Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 13:06:56 -0500 From: Christopher Schulte <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org> To: <barbish@a1poweruser.com>, "Eric Six" <erics@sirsi.com>, "Brett Cates" <bcates513@hotmail.com> Cc: "FBSDQ" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Changing MAC Address Message-ID: <5.1.1.6.2.20020708130110.03dd9830@pop3s.schulte.org> In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGMEPCCEAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com> References: <DC32C8CEB3F8D311B6B5009027DE5AD5046FA8E0@stlmail.dra.com>
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At 01:56 PM 7/8/2002 -0400, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: >You miss-read the problem. His cable provider gave him the PCI cable modem >card to use on their cable network. The cable provider only uses the Mac >address of that card on their cable network. His pc is so old it was mfg'ed >before there were PCI busses on the motherboard. He is SOL unless the >cable service also has ISA cable modem cards that they will exchange. So >what I said in my reply to him is correct. Is this a special card that interfaces with the cable modem via some proprietary method, or a regular ethernet card where the CC only provisions the MAC of the card they gave to the customer, and no other card? If it's a regular card they provisioned, just change the MAC address via ifconfig to that value and let the FreeBSD box get the DHCP lease and NAT from there internally. I've never heard of a cable provider that locks you to a card that they install and won't let you use one of choice. How rude! -- Christopher Schulte http://www.schulte.org/ Do not un-munge my @nospam.schulte.org email address. This address is valid. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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