Multiple MAC addresses per single Ethernet card?

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Sat Mar 12 06:17:01 UTC 2005


On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 20:48:30 -0800,
  Aaron O'Hara <ajeo at hungryforlife.org> wrote:
> I'm trying to see if I can have multiple IPs on 1 interface.  My ISP
> allows up to 8 dynamic IPs and I'd like to amalgamate them on as few
> boxes as possible.
> 
> I've started a thread about multiple DHCP'd addresses and my problem is
> that my ISP uses the MAC address to determine the IP address it issues
> in a DHCP 'handshake'.
> 
> Is there any way to create virtual MAC addresses that are bound to a
> single NIC?

You could probably change the mac address before each of the 8 dhcp
requests. But you would only use mac address after getting allocated the
IP addresses.

It seems odd that the ISP will give you 8 IP addresses, but won't make
them static.




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