From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 20 14:51:12 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E13B037B401 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 14:51:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from maxlor.mine.nu (c-213-160-32-54.customer.ggaweb.ch [213.160.32.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3622E43F43 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 14:51:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mail@maxlor.com) Received: from merlin.intranet (merlin.intranet [10.0.0.16]) by maxlor.mine.nu (Postfix) with SMTP id E7F3E12CF27; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 23:51:09 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 23:51:09 +0100 From: Maxlor To: Dan Nelson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dc NIC: mac address gets reset (5.0-REL) Message-Id: <20030120235109.0007dde9.mail@maxlor.com> In-Reply-To: <20030120223824.GJ49032@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030120215433.2bed4bb4.benlutz@datacomm.ch> <20030120223824.GJ49032@dan.emsphone.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.9 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-unknown-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:38:25 -0600 Dan Nelson wrote: > I think this is a known problem. You can probably work around it by > creating a file "/etc/start_if.dc0" with the single line: > > ifconfig dc0 ether 01:23:45:67:89:AB > > That should force the mac address before dhcp starts up. Thank you, works just fine. And it's much less ugly than having a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d :) Greetings Benjamin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message