From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 25 2:14:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (unknown [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABBC314E89 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 02:14:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.14]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990625091742.DEW784493.mta1-rme@wocker>; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 21:17:42 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Emmanuel Duros Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 21:14:32 +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: <199906250906.LAA11777@chouette.inria.fr> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990625091742.DEW784493.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 25 Jun 99, at 11:06, Emmanuel Duros wrote: > How can I set a MAC address to an Ethernet card different from the > default ? (in case the device supports the operation) > > The man on ifconfig does not say anything about it. I suspect that is because the MAC address is hardcoded into the card and cannot be changed. -- 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