On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 02:12, Stuart Powell wrote:
Hello, Derek.
I have a couple of wild and crazy ideas about this matter.
Firstly, a quick and dirty fix for you. Pop the NIC out of the firewall machine, and drop it into one of your other machines with a full blown OS on it. Configure the DSL modem with that machine. Then put the card back into the firewall box, and, as if by magic, your firewall will be using the same MAC address as the machine it was configured with and your DSL modem should be happy.
Secondly, and this one is a bit more technical, and may even be wrong (I'm sure someone will correct me if my logic is flawed), but if the firewall is running NAT, then does it really matter which machine configures the DSL modem ? With NAT enabled, all outgoing packets inherit the IP and MAC address of the NAT machine's external interface. Therefore, you should be able to hook up your firewall machine to the DSL modem, and configure it from any of the machines behind the firewall. I am assuming you have NAT enabled so as to hide the other machines from the DSL modem.
Bye for now,
Derek, Are you by any chance using iinet.net.au - noticed you did a post a couple of weeks ago and I never got around to replying. If so the second bit of advice Stuart provided will work with iinet as I have done the same. Although now I have moved to a SuSE firewall solution for other reasons. If you have any problems with the above, email me off list. -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------