From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 14 10:11:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A6B014D34 for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 10:10:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA19157; Fri, 14 May 1999 11:10:58 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA11648; Fri, 14 May 1999 11:10:57 -0600 Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 11:10:57 -0600 Message-Id: <199905141710.LAA11648@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Steve.Gailey@db.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ifconfig: changing mac address In-Reply-To: <199905141618.RAA03237@pow.srv.uk.deuba.com> References: <199905141618.RAA03237@pow.srv.uk.deuba.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Is it possible to change the mac address of an ethernet card using > ifconfig? Not in any 'standard' card, no. Some cards (in SUN workstations) allow you to swap the EEPROM with the mac address, and I'll bet somewhere someone has designed a card with a programmable mac address, but normally it's not settable. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message