How to make ipfw consider MAC-IP match?

Igor Pokrovsky ip at doom.homeunix.org
Tue Feb 15 09:49:58 PST 2005


On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 04:18:47PM -0600, Chris Dillon wrote:
> >(i did not undestrand, how i somebody can match mac and ip with 
> >static arp except that he actually get the physical NIC from 
> >somebody's computer).
> 
> Because you can change the MAC address of your NIC to match someone 
> else's very easily.  Here's how in FreeBSD:
> 
> ifconfig fxp0 link 00:11:22:33:44:55
> 
> It's that easy...

It's not that easy. Not all cards support MAC address change.
And even if a card support this, it is not always possible to do this
with ifconfig.

-ip

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