> > Is it possible to change the mac address of an ethernet card using > > ifconfig? > > Not in any 'standard' card, no. Some cards (in SUN workstations) allow > you to swap the EEPROM with the mac address, and I'll bet somewhere > someone has designed a card with a programmable mac address, but > normally it's not settable.
Yeah, we've got some Dy-4 m68k-based single board computers that allow the lower 3 bytes of the MAC address to be programmed. It's kind of annoying though, because the lower 3 bytes are always set to 0 and we have to uniquely set them for each board that we deliver to our customer. The MAC addresses were meant to be unique; why do you want the ability to change them? So you can make M$ viruses without anyone figuring it out who made them ;-)? Dan Eischen eisc...@vigrid.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
