From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 20 15:25:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from relay02.chello.nl (relay02.chello.nl [212.83.68.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17DA237B74B for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 15:25:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@chello.nl) Received: from chello.nl ([213.46.78.184]) by relay02.chello.nl (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 99c8f334c649856e3f2cdadc4054e412) with ESMTP id <20000420222439.GZKT18572.relay02@chello.nl>; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 00:24:39 +0200 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by chello.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA08665; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 00:24:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 00:24:41 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Ronald van der Pol Cc: wc.bulte@chello.nl, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting Ethernet address on Ethernet card? Message-ID: <20000421002441.A8651@yedi.wbnet> Reply-To: wc.bulte@chello.nl References: <20000421000704.B8415@yedi.wbnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Ronald.vanderPol@surfnet.nl on Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 12:20:57AM +0200 X-OS: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 12:20:57AM +0200, Ronald van der Pol wrote: > 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 chello customer maybe? > 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). You can on the 2104x DEC-chip based cards because DECnet needed it. So the DEC chips can do it. I'm not certain this applies to all brands of ethernet cards. -- Wilko Bulte Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org http://www.tcja.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message