Re: MAC address issue

["matthew sporleder" <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 1/17/08, comfooc <comfooc%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> Hello,
> I want to touch once again subject of hardware network address
> changes. I've made some research and found that NetBSD is the only one
> (from BSD's) with lack of this feature... Why?
>
> Why I need this:
> At my University is network with restricted access there are 8 public
> MAC's so you need to change your one to the public one to gain access
> to the network. So i can't use NetBSD in this case...
>

If I recall correctly, you can setup an etherip(4) virtual
interface/tunnel to achieve this.  You then set the mac address with a
sysctl(8).