From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 20 15:17:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from survis.surfnet.nl (survis.surfnet.nl [192.87.108.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 167E437B746 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 15:17:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Ronald.vanderPol@surfnet.nl) Received: from zuurtje.surfnet.nl ([192.87.109.5]) by survis.surfnet.nl with ESMTP (exPP) id 12iPGa-0002cT-00; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 00:17:44 +0200 Received: from surah.surfnet.nl (surah.surfnet.nl [192.87.109.3]) by zuurtje.surfnet.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3/ZUURTJE-0.7) with ESMTP id AAA16827; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 00:17:44 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from sure.surfnet.nl (sure.surfnet.nl [192.87.109.131]) by surah.surfnet.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3/SURAH-0.1) with ESMTP id AAA04228; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 00:17:43 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 00:20:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Ronald van der Pol To: wc.bulte@chello.nl Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting Ethernet address on Ethernet card? In-Reply-To: <20000421000704.B8415@yedi.wbnet> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > If this is the same 21041 card: the driver pulls the actual address from > the address ROM on the card. No, that's a 3com 509B :-) So, setting the Ethernet address depends on the Ethernet card brand? Is the source Ethernet address in a IP packet usually inserted by the Ethernet card firmware? If it is just data in a kernel structure I would expect that you could simply change it with an ioctl(2). rvdp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message