> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:21 AM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've just spent a fruitless few hours attempting to change the > > MAC address on the ALIX WAN port - the /etc/config/network > > "option macaddr" command doesn't work
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 08:51:26AM -0800, Jason McArthur wrote: > A quick way to change the mac address of an interface is: > > # ifconfig eth0 down > # ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55 > # ifconfig eth0 up > > Perhaps resetting your cpe, then plug the alix board in so the cpe sees that > mac first and locks it in, might be a trick if changing mac addresses > doesn't work. The old Surfboard cable modems were like that. They only > allowed 1 device hooked up to it, so each time something new was attached, > you had to reset the modem. The OpenWRT website suggests many ways to set the MAC address. I tried these types of things last night (hence the hours involved). The ifconfig step does not work with the ALIX - the most likely thing is that the MAC address is set at the factory in the firmware, and there is no shifting it without rewriting the parameters associated with the BIOS. I am exploring that option now - If Pascal at PC Engines answers my email. I do not have a "modem" per se. I am directly connected by 100baseT ethernet to the Verizon FIOS optical network terminal. Of course, I tried all the various power cycling experiments (which for the ONT requires pulling both line power and the battery backup on the ONT power supply). I did this in spite of my recollection of my last interaction with Verizon, involving lots of phone tag with human operators to get the MAC address set to my previous hardware. The old hardware is a PCMCIA card plugged into the laptop I use as a firewall, the most portable arrangement I could make a few months ago. I hate talking to clueless human operators (and at 1AM when I was trying this, the cluefull would be home asleep). I hate it even more that I am hard of hearing, and make frequent mistakes using the telephone to talk to them. So far, I've found the ALIX a challenge to work with, and I do not expect it to come completely up the first pass. Therefore, I will be swapping back to the previous arrangement (and MAC address), in order to surf the net for clues. I expect to need to do this half a dozen times. The only practical way to do this given Verizon's operator-"assisted" way of doing things, is to use one MAC address for everything. Since the PCMCIA card on the current setup is old, I don't know whether I get to override its MAC address either. I will figure this out, eventually, but it is an annoyance. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
