Re: MAC address issue

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:51:07AM -0500, matthew sporleder wrote:
> 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).

It's tap(4).

HTH
        -is