Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 20:09:22 +0200 From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, Steve.Gailey@db.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ifconfig: changing mac address Message-ID: <70463.926705362@verdi.nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 May 1999 17:25:10 %2B0200 (MET DST)" References: <199905141525.RAA24858@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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> > 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. > > while ifconfig might miss this functionality, i believe your answer > is incorrect. Yep. It's the other way around - any card will allow you to do this, AFAIK. Otherwise they couldn't be made to work with DECnet, for instance. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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