Re:Change MAC address in 4.0?

[Steven Sartorius <ssartor%bellatlantic.net@localhost>]

On Feb 16, 2008, at 10:14, Steven Sartorius wrote:


> Hi,
>
> I just recently had Verizon FIOS internet installed (20/5, not  
> bad!) and now I'm trying to get it to play nicely with my 4.0 home  
> server.  When Verizon installs FIOS they give you an enormous brick  
> of a router, an Actiontec ML424WR.  Rather than be forced to use  
> this I just want to continue to have my NetBSD box handle firewall  
> and NAT duties.  FIOS (at least my install) is DHCP based so I'm  
> able to pull an IP address from Verizon by plugging the Cat5e from  
> the ONT into the WAN port on the Actiontec.  I'm unable to do this  
> with my NetBSD box:

As suggested, I bridged a tap interface with my vr0 card -- and that  
did the trick; I was at least able to get Verizon to acknowledge my  
existence:

Feb 16 16:10:15 shuttle dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 96.242.86.1
Feb 16 16:10:20 shuttle dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on tap0 to  
255.255.255.255 port 67
Feb 16 16:10:24 shuttle dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on tap0 to  
255.255.255.255 port 67
Feb 16 16:10:34 shuttle dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on tap0 to  
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
Feb 16 16:10:42 shuttle dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on tap0 to  
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
Feb 16 16:10:52 shuttle dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on tap0 to  
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
Feb 16 16:10:59 shuttle dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on tap0 to  
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
Feb 16 16:11:05 shuttle dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
Feb 16 16:11:05 shuttle dhclient: No working leases in persistent  
database - sleeping.


Don't know why I couldn't pull an address though, maybe Verizon is  
looking for more than the basic dhclient configuration I'm supplying...

In any case, thanks for the help.

Steve