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From: "Anth Courtney" <anthcourtney@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: changing a nic's mac address, freebsd6
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Dave,

On 4/19/06, Dave <dmehler26@woh.rr.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>    I've got an rl0 nic on a freebsd6 machine that i need to change it's m=
ac
> address on a tempoary basis.

You can do this with ifconfig and the link parameter.

i.e

# /sbin/ifconfig rl0 link $NEWMACADDRESS

cheers,

Anth