I just recently purchased a Netgear r6100 prior to this so Im trying to enable passthrough on the modem/router combo otherwise my 100 was wasted.
Steps taken: The Dock has a MAC address MAC1 printed on the dock I plug the dock into the laptop it shows as MAC2. Getting WAN MAC Address for IP Passthrough AT&T just forced us to update our modem with the Uverse update which is a Modem/Router combo. The dock's manufacturer suggests that a "pass through" of a unique MAC address per machine to the dock is possible on Windows, so I'm kind of just throwing out a question as to whether the same is possible on macOS. The MAC address passthrough is present in the BIOS but need to get the information via a command. I get that this may not at all be possible, either because of limitations in Network preferences or in the hardware/software configuration options of the dock. Is there a way to pass-through the MacBook MAC address, allowing the network to see it and not the adapter MAC address In my laboratory, the MAC address of the device must be registered to use the wired internet connection.
MAC Pass-through is used when a port number or packet protocol that an in-bound application might use cannot be anticipated. I have a MacBook Pro (13', 2019, macOS 11.6) and an external adapter for the ethernet connection. All other client devices will connect using NAPT on the private LAN subnet.
What I would like is for the DHCP server to see a different MAC address through the dock depending on which MBP is connected to it. The MAC Pass-through feature allows a device on the LAN to have a public address assigned to it. This causes a conflict.įor example, if that IP address is mapped to hostname 'foo', then things like ssh get into trouble because with MBP #1 connected, the IP address will have one host key, but with MBP #2 connected, that same IP address will have a different host key. the one assigned to the dock's MAC address). As soon as I enable the dock's network interface, the MBP will get assigned the same IP address (i.e. If I enable that, my MBP will get assigned that IP address on that interface. This works great except that your MBP gets assigned the IP address for the docking station's ethernet port's MAC address, which makes it impossible to switch between several different laptops. When I plug MBP #1 into the dock, I'll see the dock show up in the list of available network interfaces. I've started using a Plugable docking station which allows your USB-C MBP to use a wired connection on the dock. Meaning any IP or port can go to any IP or port. That's the MAC that the DHCP server assigns an IP address to. DMZplus / IP Passthrough Using an Arris Device DMZ mode on many home routers and broadband devices bypasses the firewall with an effective any-to-any filter. The docking station has its own MAC address hardwired to ethernet. Yep, I'm sure I didn't describe the problem very clearly.