Multiple MACs on a single NIC

[alan]

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 chicks at chicks.net wrote:

> We're dealing with a stupid cable company in KY that won't assign extra 
> IP's with each IP having it's own MAC.  Ultimately the machines are going 
> to be sitting behind a FC2 firewall, but we need to get the IP's somehow. 
> One solution would be to drop 5 NIC's in a box, but that seems pretty 
> stupid to me.  Is there any way to have a single NIC respond to more than 
> 1 MAC address?

I don't understand why you need multiple mac addresses.

Maybe if we understood the goal of what you were trying to accomplish, we 
might be able to help better.

If you just want to have multiple machines behind the firewall, just use 
NAT and non-routable IP addresses (192.168.x.x).