Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:42:12 +0200 From: Volodymyr Kostyrko <arcade@ints.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Change MAC address of LAN card in rc.conf. How? Message-ID: <cvt41j$8rm$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <20050227135449.63995.qmail@web54002.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050227135449.63995.qmail@web54002.mail.yahoo.com>
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Rob wrote: > I'm running 5.3 STABLE. > > I need to change the MAC address of my PC. > > I know it can be done like this: > > ifconfig rl0 ether 11:22:33:44:55:66 > > So I guessed I could make life a little easier by > adding this in my /etc/rc.conf file as: > > ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.123.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 > ether 11:22:33:44:55:66" > > However, this does not seem to work. No IP address > is assigned to the LAN card after bootup. > Apparently something is wrong here. > Any idea how I can do this at bootup? ifconfig_rl0_alias0="ether 11:22:33:44:55:66" -- [WBR], Arcade. [SAT Astronomy/Think to survive!]
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