[ale] MAC Addresses

Jason Lynn jason_lynn_ at hotmail.com
Mon Sep 10 14:36:59 EDT 2001


I can change the MAC of my NIC card with ifconfig.
ifconfig <interface> hw ether <MAC>.
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>I do not know of nic that has a changeable MAC address,
>but you can get yourself a netgear cable/dsl router
>which can spoof the mac address based on ip. That will
>work with roadrunner.
>
>Tomas
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jason Lynn [mailto:jason_lynn_ at hotmail.com]
>Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 2:19 PM
>To: ale at ale.org
>Subject: [ale] MAC Addresses
>
>
>I was wondering if the following is possible...
>For the sake of argument, lets assume that I only have two computers.  :)
>Computer A is my gateway / firewall and computer B is my Windows box used
>for gaming, etc.  Computer A has two NICs, NIC1 (connected to the net), 
>NIC2
>
>(connected to internal LAN).  Computer B has one NIC on the internal LAN,
>NIC3.  To connect to my cable modem service, my MAC address on my external
>NIC has to be a certain value, X.  So naturally, NIC1 has the MAC Address 
>X.
>
>   Ok, now I want to host some game server on my Windows box.  I was
>wondering if it were possible to set NIC3's MAC to X as well so I could 
>just
>
>move my cable modem connection to NIC3 instead of NIC1.  NIC1 and NIC3 will
>never be talking directly to each other.  Would this cause any conflicts /
>trouble?
>TIA,
>Jason
>
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