Changing MAC address - Broadcom 4400 NIC card

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Sat Jun 7 23:37:32 UTC 2008


Ivan Avery Frey wrote:
> William Muriithi wrote:
>> Hi pals,
>>
>> I have a situation where the ISP uses MAC address as part of
>> authentication.  This means that only one PC can ever use this
>> particular modem. So I have two options:
>>
>> 1] Call the ISP and ask them to swap the MAC address.
>> 2] Change the MAC address of the second host to the MAC address of the
>> first host.
>
> You could use a router.

My "router" is an old Compaq computer, running Linux.  It's the 2nd 
computer I've had in that role.



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