Hi Gene,

I remember some months (possibly over a year, now) ago that someone 
managed to do this from within Mac OS. Have a search of VersionTracker; 
it was MACHelper or some such.

So it's definitely possible!

~ Matthew


On Friday, April 5, 2002, at 01:12  pm, Gene ENonymous wrote:

> My basic question is, can I change the MAC address in the internal
> ethernet interface of my Centris 650 (sn0)?
>
> The issue I have is that I want to run DHCP for my cable modem
> with InsightBB (which uses ATT's cable modem infrastructure) and
> they tie the cable modem / DHCP to a single registered client
> MAC. They fully allow you to re register clients, but I would
> really like to be able to be able to just switch back and forth
> without jumping through hoops.
>
> I read several older threads which indicate ifconfig in solaris
> and maybe linux allows the "ether aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff" as a mechanism
> to accomplish this.
>
> I also read an old thread in the tech-net:
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-net/2001/01/16/0002.html
> which indicates (I think) that at some point "they" thought
> it was possible (though not with an ifconfig interface?)???
>
> At this point a definitive answer would be helpful...
>
> Thanks,
> gene
>
> yancm@sdf.lonestar.org
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>