On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:

> AB> Gah.. I've just spent the last few hours trying to set up a SPARCstation
> AB> with an extra network card. Apaprently with local-mac-address? set to true
> AB> both of them still uses the same MAC addresses.
>
> ...it shouldn't matter (unless your ISP is doing something ghetto) in a
> typical home-lan situation where you're just going to IPNAT a /24 of
> private space to a /32 of public space using ipf(8).  You don't even need
> two NIC's to do a firewall.  That's a common misconception, it's just that
> all the examples on the web involve two NICs.  Physical networks are
> completely unrelated to logical addressing.
>
> ...let me know if you need example configs.

Yes, I've just realised that having identical MAC addresses doesn't matter
if both cards are on separate subnets.

DCHP gets and sets the IP addresses, but still struggling to get routing
to work properly...

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