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    What Virtual IP type address to use?

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      tytyguy
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      My ISP deploys out "static" IP's via DHCP (TELUS)
      i have a NG 6100 and will run the fiber modem to the 2.5G link.

      I have a couple routers that already have static IP's

      How would I go about creating Virtual IP's that SPOOF a different MAC address
      thus getting the static IP on a new Virtual IP on the Netgate and not the old Cisco.

      Or when I call into the ISP can a virtual ip also generate a new MAC that they can just use instead?

      This is to avoid having to have a switch in-between the ISP modem and the Netgate
      (currently how i get more than 1 static IP off the modem)

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        There is no good way to do that. The only VIP type that uses a different MAC is CARP and that uses a special MAC type the ISP may reject. It also must be configured as static, it cannot be DHCP.
        The only way I've seen this done is to create a single interface bridge on the WAN. You can then assign that and spoof the MAC and it will pull a new IP via DHCP.
        However that is a hack. pfSense it not intended to operate like that, you should not have more that one interface in the same subnet.

        Steve

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