I am also curios and I will found out :) Peter John Brooks wrote:
just curious... what happens when your 'router' and your 'laptop' both have the same MAC address? -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [[3]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Bomar Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:42 AM To: Peter; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MAC address & rc.conf -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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" - -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [6]http://www.bomar.us/~bob -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - [7]http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCralK9Jm/aTrtdKoRAlFFAJ93Y0XL7OMbJcdhFvBxQP3XEtzP6QCeOHIQ 8m1uyAMjW8F1SW0E/HNYFBA= =d5HD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list [9]http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [10]"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list [12]http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [13]"[EMAIL PROTECTED] " References 1. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 3. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 4. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. http://www.bomar.us/~bob 7. http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ 8. mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 9. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions 10. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 11. mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 12. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions 13. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
