From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 10 23: 2:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aquarius.aquezada.com (trt-on5-01.netcom.ca [207.181.82.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E4C214C0B for ; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 23:02:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdunn@aquezada.com) Received: from jupiter.aquezada.com (jupiter.aquezada.com [192.168.5.5]) by aquarius.aquezada.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id BAA23173; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 01:11:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jdunn@aquezada.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <370FF7DB.308CC77C@confusion.net> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 01:10:03 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: jdunn@aquezada.com Organization: Aquezada Productions From: "Julian C. Dunn" To: Laurence Berland Subject: Re: MAC address. Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, npe@bfc.dk Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11-Apr-99 Laurence Berland wrote: > The MAC address is burned in, is it not?? If I have the correct impression > of how it is, you can't change a MAC address no matter what. Right. The MAC address identifies both the manufacturer and ID number of the card. Every Ethernet card manufactured has a unique MAC address. - Julian [ Julian C. Dunn - jdunn@aquezada.com WWW: http://www.aquezada.com/ ] [ programmer, web designer, unix user, fumbler, writer, and future engineer] [ FuE exfe94 a+++ Ifte/slc lonca r- ps++ bs+ t++/*t C+++$/C! w+++ p7 LF+++ ] [N++/N! cd260 pr++ g+++ S-/S *x++ Fa+++/Fa$/Fa! m1 b+ fc+++/ E>+ rl-- *d s!] [ "you're cruel and unkind when i can't read your mind " - lenni jabour ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message