Re: DHCP and chnaging the MAC address on a network card

2021-02-12 Thread Pete French
On 10/02/2021 23:50, Eugene Grosbein wrote: Try changing your command a bit: /sbin/ifconfig $1 ether d0:bf:9c:46:a3:7c up So, this worked. I also turned off the cable modem for five minuets before rebooting as well, but I suspect it was simply this which did the trick. thanks, -pete.

Re: DHCP and chnaging the MAC address on a network card

2021-02-11 Thread Pete French
On 10/02/2021 23:50, Eugene Grosbein wrote: Try changing your command a bit: /sbin/ifconfig $1 ether d0:bf:9c:46:a3:7c up Ah, interesting, yes - I did wonder about that, but looking inside network.subr it seemed to run ifconfig_up regardless of the result from ifcsript_up - but theres a

Re: DHCP and chnaging the MAC address on a network card

2021-02-10 Thread Eugene Grosbein
11.02.2021 6:26, Pete French wrote: > I have a machine runnign 12-STABLE, which gets its upstream IP address from > my ISP using DHCP over a cable modem. What I just tried to do was to set the > MAC address on that interface at boot time, but if I do that then it no > longer acquires a DHCP

DHCP and chnaging the MAC address on a network card

2021-02-10 Thread Pete French
I have a machine runnign 12-STABLE, which gets its upstream IP address from my ISP using DHCP over a cable modem. What I just tried to do was to set the MAC address on that interface at boot time, but if I do that then it no longer acquires a DHCP address from the upstream. Is there something