image from http://swain.webframe.org/tshirts/ To instantly change your Network interface card’s (NIC) MAC Address or Physical Address on a freeBSD system the command to use is: where rl0 is the NIC whose Physical address will be changed.  This will change back to its original Physical Address when the system reboots. To change the Physical Address of rl0 every time the system boots you need to open rc.conf (/etc/rc.conf) and add the following lines: Good luck! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend

I just assembled a low budget rig for a muti-purpose home server  with the following specs: AMD Sempron(tm) 145 Processor (2812.86-MHz K8-class CPU) real memory  = 2147483648 (2048 MB) DDR3 160GB IDE HDD Recycled 500W PSU CDR-KING Bluetooth Dongle Recycled CPU Casing 2 10/100/1000 Mbps NIC and 1 On-board 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Deep Cool Gamma Blade CPU Cooler I installed Freebsd 9.0-amd64.  One of my goal was to allow my girlfriend to download stuff through torrent.  Why on my machine?