Re: Multiple MAC address on one interface

[Mark <firewalladmin () bellsouth net>]

If this is for a SOHO solution, just pick up any one of the many $50-$70
cable/dsl routers from Best Buy, CompUSA or even Walmart, such as a
Linksys, Dlink or Microsoft. All of these have a setting called "MAC
Cloning". What you do is set up your access with the ISP from one of
your computers straight to the cable/dsl modem. Then once the setup is
complete put your broadband router in between the computer/modem,
connect to the router via http://192.168.1.1 (usually) and in the MAC
cloning section enter the MAC address of the computer you used to set up
the connection with the ISP. Most of these routers come with 4 switch
ports and one WAN port (all ethernet/RJ45) so you should be good to go.
You can always throw another switch in the mix if you have more than 4
computers. 

Does this sound like it would do what you are asking or was I way off?

Mark

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 21:16, chicks () chicks net wrote:
> I'm dealing with a hard headed Cable ISP that won't give out additional 
> IP's unless there's a unique MAC for each.  (what a crock!)  Eventually 
> the plan is to hang five boxes off this connection (for development 
> purposes) and it'd be much simpler to only have to deal with the wanky 
> cable company once.  I could put five NIC's in a box, but that seems a 
> waste of hardware (and would require using a couple of expensive 
> dual-interface NIC's).  So, is there some cheap way to have one NIC 
> respond to multiple MAC addresses?  I'm most comfortable with Linux, but 
> if I needed to use BSD or something else I'd be willing to do that.

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