Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sun, 27 Feb 2005 05:54:49 -0800 (PST)
From:      Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com>
To:        FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Change MAC address of LAN card in rc.conf. How?
Message-ID:  <20050227135449.63995.qmail@web54002.mail.yahoo.com>

next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

Hi,

I'm running 5.3 STABLE.

I need to change the MAC address of my PC.

I know it can be done like this:

   ifconfig rl0 ether 11:22:33:44:55:66

So I guessed I could make life a little easier by
adding this in my /etc/rc.conf file as:

ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.123.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
ether 11:22:33:44:55:66"

However, this does not seem to work. No IP address
is assigned to the LAN card after bootup.
Apparently something is wrong here.
Any idea how I can do this at bootup?

Thanks,
Rob.

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com 



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20050227135449.63995.qmail>