From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 15 4:24:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [158.36.41.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 35CD614DEC for ; Sat, 15 May 1999 04:24:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) Received: (qmail 82721 invoked by uid 1001); 15 May 1999 11:24:23 +0000 (GMT) To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl Cc: eischen@vigrid.com, Steve.Gailey@db.com, nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ifconfig: changing mac address From: sthaug@nethelp.no In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 May 1999 20:08:21 +0200 (CEST)" References: <199905141808.UAA05979@yedi.iaf.nl> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 13:24:23 +0200 Message-ID: <82719.926767463@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Things like DECnet set the MAC address. Don't ask me why though. Because there is a one to one correspondence between the DECnet (Phase IV) address and the MAC address. Ie. if you specify the DECnet address, you have also implicitly specified the MAC address. 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