Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:06:09 -0500 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: James.Gill@mci.com Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: local-mac-address Message-ID: <20040330220609.GB22027@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.51.0403301609030.4976@haiti.corp.us.uu.net> References: <Pine.SOL.4.51.0403301609030.4976@haiti.corp.us.uu.net>
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On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 04:36:43PM -0500, Gill, James wrote:
>
> >From the archive (and my experience yesterday) it seems that setting
> local-mac-address? to true in the OpenBoot does not get seen by the OS yet
> (5.2.1-p3). I have a need to configure different MAC addresses for each
> interface on the system therefore, I need to manually set 'ifconfig
> hmeN ether 0a:0:20:00:00:N' for each of my interfaces at each boot.
>
> Now my question: where is the best place to do this? I've poked through
> the stuff in /etc/rc.d/ and /etc/defaults/rc.conf and don't see the
> obvious place for this. perhaps /usr/local/etc/rc.d/?
I would try to do it in /etc/rc.conf first. You will see lines there
already that set up the network interfaces. Adding the "ether" command
line arguments there should work.
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Ken Smith
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