Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 00:24:41 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@chello.nl> To: Ronald van der Pol <Ronald.vanderPol@surfnet.nl> Cc: wc.bulte@chello.nl, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting Ethernet address on Ethernet card? Message-ID: <20000421002441.A8651@yedi.wbnet> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004210014030.25898-100000@sure.surfnet.nl>; from Ronald.vanderPol@surfnet.nl on Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 12:20:57AM %2B0200 References: <20000421000704.B8415@yedi.wbnet> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004210014030.25898-100000@sure.surfnet.nl>
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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
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