MAC Addr Cloning

[Louis LeBlanc]

On 08/23/03 10:00 PM, Thomas Smith sat at the `puter and typed:
> Dan Nelson wrote:
> 
> >In the last episode (Aug 23), Thomas Smith said:
> >  
> >
> >>I have a Cox Internet connection that I currently use a Netgear
> >>router with. I'd like to hook my FreeBSD box to that connection and
> >>use it instead. The problem is that Cox provisions accounts and if
> >>the MAC address changes they have to be called to reprovision the
> >>account.
> >>
> >>What I'd like to do is configure one of my NICs to clone the MAC of
> >>the router. How is this done in FreeBSD?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >ifconfig fxp0 ether 01:02:03:04:05:06
> >
> Excellent! This worked.
> 
> What I was doing wrong was including the "ether" value as part of a 
> complete string. For example:
> 
> ifconfig dc0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ether 00:00:00:00:00:00
> 
> This would return an error. This appearently has to do with the layer 
> the MAC works on versus the IP--since they're on different layers I have 
> to configure them seperately.
> 
> Thanks for the input. Thanks also to the other poster, Louis LeBlanc.
> 
> FYI to Louis: If you add a line, as follows, in your /etc/rc.conf you 
> can be ride of the "start_if.x10" file.
> 
> ifconfig_x10="ether 00:00:00:00:00:00"
> 
> I thought this may prove useful to you.

Cool.  You learn something new every day . . .

Thanks!
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