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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


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