Right, mine is all f's. any one know where I can get a good random generated one?
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Buechler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 3:58 PM Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [pfSense-discussion] spoof mac On 7/23/05, Scott Ullrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is only for network interfaces that have invalid mac addresses > already (ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff). You can spoof the mac in the respected > interface, there is a box for it. There is no way to randomly > generate a mac address unless your original address is invalid. > nor would you ever *want* to spoof your MAC address unless you have good reason to do so. For hardware that doesn't have a MAC in the usual location and ends up with ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, you need to spoof one or nothing will work. For the WAN, sometimes you want to spoof the MAC of your previous firewall so you don't have to go through any crap with your ISP to get switched over to a different machine. Other than that, there's no good reason to spoof a MAC, and is probably more likely to break things than anything. (vendor obscurity is not a good reason) -cmb
