MAC address & rc.conf

[Bob Bomar]

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Peter wrote:
|    Hi,
|    My ISP have aauthorization by username, password AND mac address.
|    I currently make PPPoE connection from my laptop(win XP) to them.
|    However I want to put FreeBSD router in front of my laptop.
|    That is why I will need to make MAC address of outgoing ethernet card
|    same as my laptop.
|    I plan to make bash script(ifconfig down, ifconfig up)  for that
|    purpose.
|    However I prefer a little bit cleaner solution ...
|     is there any way I can set MAC address for the network card in
|    rc.conf ?
|    Thanks :-)))
|    Kind regards,
|    Pete
|

When the system boots, it will read rc.conf, and then
it will pass the ifconfig_inf="..." to ifconfig, so
what I do is just to add ether aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff to
that line:

ifconfig_fxp0="inet 1.2.3.4 netmask 255.0.0.0 ether aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff"



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