On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 15:50, Trevor Lauder wrote: > You can't do IP aliasing on the Telus ADSL network because of what you > say, you reserve your IPs by MAC address and you can't enter in the same > MAC twice. Nor can you hard-code your IP address(s), even static is done > through DHCP.... someone should smack the dodo at Telus who came up with > that system. Anyways, they don't support it and it will not be possible > until they modify their OCA frontend/database to allow that kind of thing, > apparently they are working on it but I wouldn't hold my breath. I > believe you can do it with route2 and 2+ external NICs, although I'm still > working on getting it working (I had CADVision here before and used IP > aliases with 1 NIC, didn't need route2 for that as the Linux firewall only > had 1 default gateway, with 2 external NICs you get 2 default gateways). > I know this isn't very positive feedback but this is the way Telus works. > Later, >
It is possible to change the mac address of your nic to obtain multiple ips through dhcp. A friend of mine has a script to do just that. In fact he works for telus in DHCP support and has help customers with it. I will attempt to get the script from him and forward it to the list. regards, Mark
