It does it automatically with recent versions.
On 7/23/05, Jason Brunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > >
