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Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:52:11 -0700
From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: Adam Gregoire <ebola@psychoholics.org>
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Subject: Re: MAC address & rc.conf
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On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 12:49:37PM -0400, Adam Gregoire wrote:
> You need to create a file called start_if.[interface name] and set the
> mac there.
>=20
> Like this:
>=20
> ebola$ cat /etc/start_if.de0
> #!/bin/sh
> ifconfig de0 ether c0ffeec0ffee
> ifconfig de0 media 10baseT/UTP

This is pretty much what you'll need to do in 4 and 5.  In 6 you can
just put a line like this in /etc/rc.conf:

ifconfig_de0=3D"ether c0ffeec0ffee media 10baseT/UTP DHCP"

-- Brooks

--=20
Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE.
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