From owner-freebsd-security Mon Dec 11 7:51:26 2000 From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 07:51:23 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69F8337B400 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 07:51:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id eBBFoue42596; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 10:50:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 10:50:56 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe Cc: David Erickson , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAC Address In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe wrote: > I'm sure you could work it out, but i'm curious as why you would want to > do this? A MAC address provides a necessary function in it's sequences > of set prefixes and it's sequence of unique suffixes. While apparently it's not the aim of the person asking, there are a lot of practical benefits to being able to change the MAC address on a device. This functionality can be used in (both manual and automatic) fail-over situations with bad/lost/stolen cards, in the presence of centrally administered DHCP and bootp services that don't adapt rapidly (or at all) to changing MAC addresses, etc. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message