From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 25 20:57:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp5.jps.net (smtp5.jps.net [209.63.224.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81FED14D71 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 20:57:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ulairi@jps.net) Received: from ulairi (208-237-196-53.irv.jps.net [208.237.196.53]) by smtp5.jps.net (8.9.0/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA07856; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 20:57:46 -0700 (PDT) From: "Ulairi" To: "Emmanuel Duros" Cc: "Questions" Subject: RE: How to set MAC address ? Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 20:57:25 -0700 Message-ID: <000e01bebf88$00290ba0$35c4edd0@ulairi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <199906250906.LAA11777@chouette.inria.fr> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 http://www.rootshell.com/archive-j457nxiqi3gq59dv/199807/changemac.c.ht ml Now, despite the claim of this fooling the hubs/switches, without a specially-written device driver, the MAC address change will set a high HEX bit to a special value in the MAC address to indicate a software change - Cabletron's smart switches doing VLAN and VFast Secure management software for VLAN under Cabletron are set to detect that high bit and act accordingly when doing ACL-based access. Hope this helps. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.0.2i iQA/AwUBN3RNelR8Yh25VFLEEQLdqwCgsfyMpNW2y7fOWhjqNzTfyMdVL6oAoI1E ty5VIKPHgwEc5l4NNYq/EMZm =OIUj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message