Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:50:20 -0800 (PST) From: Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> To: Volodymyr Kostyrko <arcade@ints.net> Cc: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Change MAC address of LAN card in rc.conf. How? Message-ID: <20050228015020.16042.qmail@web54006.mail.yahoo.com>
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Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > Rob wrote: > >> 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? > > ifconfig_rl0_alias0="ether 11:22:33:44:55:66" That works indeed. Thanks so much! Rob. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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