Mandrake 10.1 - MAC Spoofing

From: Mark (nospam_at_goaway.com)
Date: 03/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 12:58:32 +0300

Hi,

I have a simple, but annoying problem.

My cable modem is bound to the MAC address of my old computer. I have
managed to figure out how to spoof the address by adding MACADDR=xxxxxx in
ifcfg-eth0. However, for some reason, the MAC address is not spoofed
BEFORE dhclient kicks in. So when the network is brought up during
bootup, it just sits there for 2 minutes waiting until it times out. I
then have to manually do a ifdown eth0 & ifup eth0, which does the trick.

I will eventually register the new MAC address with the ISP, but thats a
pain in the ***, because they insist upon a site visit to do it, and I am
not here a lot of the time.

Is there a way to get the MAC address spoofed before dhclient runs, or is
there a mechinism within dhclient to spoof the address.

Its not a big deal issue, but its just one of those little annoyances that
I would like to clear up.

 
Thanks