From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 22 10:42:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7429A150E4 for ; Sat, 22 May 1999 10:41:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id TAA18399; Sat, 22 May 1999 19:21:22 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA16172; Sat, 22 May 1999 19:15:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199905221715.TAA16172@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: ifconfig: changing mac address In-Reply-To: <82719.926767463@verdi.nethelp.no> from "sthaug@nethelp.no" at "May 15, 1999 1:24:23 pm" To: sthaug@nethelp.no Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 19:15:11 +0200 (CEST) Cc: eischen@vigrid.com, Steve.Gailey@db.com, nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As sthaug@nethelp.no wrote ... > > Things like DECnet set the MAC address. Don't ask me why though. > > Because there is a one to one correspondence between the DECnet (Phase > IV) address and the MAC address. Ie. if you specify the DECnet address, > you have also implicitly specified the MAC address. Ah, that rings a (faint) bell. I only remember because it bit a colleague of mine once. They had a machine sitting behind a bridge and assumed that would keep their traffic local. Did not work too well because the bridge had been programmed to block the default MAC address, and not the one that DECnet made out of it. | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message