From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 058841381F3 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 21:51:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE9FDE0C5A; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 21:50:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail144c7.megamailservers.com (mail129c7-2520.megamailservers.com [69.49.98.24]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A047CE0C45 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 21:50:54 +0000 (UTC) X-POP-User: admin.sys-concept.com Received: from syscon7.localdomain (S01060050da7ae68c.ed.shawcable.net [68.149.90.13]) by mail144c7.megamailservers.com (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id r8ALomkV006641 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 17:50:49 -0400 Received: by syscon7.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id ADF952040B5; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:50:51 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:50:51 -0600 From: Joseph To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] spoof mac address Message-ID: <20130910215051.GD8083@syscon7.inet> References: <20130910174716.GA8083@syscon7.inet> <522F8ACF.3@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <522F8ACF.3@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=1.1 cv=FpCqYEmSIJzibTQ8C9TrQp0T2j1R/g6MRmEyzW9KC7k= c=1 sm=1 a=wom5GMh1gUkA:10 a=FHa0P5VTAxAA:10 a=nDghuxUhq_wA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=C3ZDv51cNVt4vJz/79I2xQ==:17 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=EhtluhmlHL828M7r378A:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 a=zgjx7miI-VmJQTfh:21 a=pyB1YAT5hz8Dwvr0:21 a=C3ZDv51cNVt4vJz/79I2xQ==:117 X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020208.522F943A.009A,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-Archives-Salt: 0ed579ab-aebf-49da-855b-58d6efb8b5c1 X-Archives-Hash: 8c2efd443230dbdb6e18b7fa6e885b9c I forgot to mention. My router is an old 486-box running freesco. So I'm trying to find out if the router is the problem with slow connection. as my download speed on cable is only 3.7Mbps and it should be about 15Mbps up to 25Mbps upload speed is 1.5Mbps -- Joseph On 09/10/13 23:10, Alan McKinnon wrote: >On 10/09/2013 19:47, Joseph wrote: >> Does anybody know how to spoof mac address on Gentoo? >> >> I want to connect a machine directly to the modem but if I do so my >> static IP will change; so to retain static IP I want to spoof mac >> address on one of my machine to the same MAC as on my router. >> > > >If you have a host and a router with the same MAC address, how do you >suppose ethernet will continue to work? > >Instead, rather do it right - your modem has a dhcp server. Configure it >to supply a specific address to your host's MAC address. Or, just set >the address statically in /etc/conf.d/net and don't use dhcp. > >Or, do you actually want to bridge the modem and do pppoe on the host >instead of by the modem? > >in /etc/conf.c/net: > >mac_key_001122334455="s:foobar" > >documented in /usr/share/doc/netifrc*/net.example.bz2 > >If you use a different network manager, consult that packages own docs >on how to change mac addresses. > > > >-- >Alan McKinnon >alan.mckinnon@gmail.com > > -- Joseph