Great idea but it's not really good enough for what I need, last time I tried to register a MAC on the OCA page our client was down for 4 days on Telus without email or web (They run in-house web and email). I'm not giving it another try because I don't trust the service from Telus enough to risk it again. That script however sounds like I could use it. Do you know if he's using dhcpcd to set the MAC upon request or if he's using ifconfig? Even if I just know what he's using to do it in the script, I can just write my own with that information. Thanks for the help. I would switch to Shaw if I could but they don't offer service in this particular area. Later,
> I'm pretty sure you can't have two identical MAC's on the same switch > and have them work independently? unless its a layer 3 switch... > > A little discrepency I noticed with Telus, is using their online > registration, you can register one mac. use your dhcp client daemon to > request an IP. > de register that MAC on Telus Online registration. > > register another mac... > rinse, repeat... > I'm not sure if it still works, but IIRC it did. > > > > On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 10:23:00 -0600 > "Kevin Anderson" <List [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I thought of this, it's an ifconfig parameter, but if he needs to >> register the MAC before he can recieve a DHCP, then he'll probably >> only be able to get one at a time. >> >> I don't know the answer to this, but would it work to make ETH0 and >> ETH1 the same physical device? Also, could you run 2 MACs >> simultaneously on a NIC? Two IPs, sure, but 2 MACs? That I'm not so >> sure about. >> >> Kev. >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 10:22 PM >> Subject: Re: (clug-talk) IP aliasing >> >> >> > 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 >> > >> > >> > >>
