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Re: Change MAC address in 4.0?



On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 06:40:53PM +0000, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:14:29 -0500 Steven Sartorius wrote:
> > Reading some of the posts on dslreports suggests that some people
> > have been able to pull an IP from Verizon by cloning the MAC address
> > of the router.  How can I do this in NetBSD 4.0?  A quick google
> > turned up nothing useful -- some mention of 'netgraph' in FreeBSD
> > but nothing for NetBSD.  Doesn't look like the NetBSD version of
> > 'ifconfig' has the 'ether' option....
> 
> This was posted a few weeks ago.
> 
> [...]
> 
> # ifconfig tapN create
> # sysctl -w net.link.tap.tapN=f0:0f:f0:0f:f0:0f  # which is wanted MAC address
> # ifconfig bridgeN create
> # brconfig bridgeN add tapN add epN
> # ifconfig tapN up
> # ifconfig epN up
> # brconfig bridgeN up

for obvious reasons, this doesn't work on wireless networks, making
NetBSD unsuitable for e.g., penetration testing.


regards,

-- 
-- Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@{NetBSD,Xtrmntr,silcnet}.org>   --

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