From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 25 2:18:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (unknown [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F873153A9 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 02:18:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.14]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990625092052.ZOWV688839.mta2-rme@wocker>; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 21:20:52 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Ladavac Marino Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 21:18:12 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: RE: How to set MAC address ? Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C11002761796A0@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990625092052.ZOWV688839.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 25 Jun 99, at 21:14, Dan Langille wrote: > I suspect that is because the MAC address is hardcoded into the card and > cannot be changed. On 25 Jun 99, at 11:11, Ladavac Marino wrote: > The consensus was that practically all cards support that, that > some drivers actually have to do it (they copy the SROM MAC) but that > there is no ifconfig support, nor an ioctl which would export that > functionality to the user space (IIRC) I stand corrected. -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message