On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 20:48:30 -0800, Aaron O'Hara <ajeo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.