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Subject: Re: Netra T1 105 and two ethernet ports
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On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Will Andrews wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 06:55:22PM -0600, Phillips, Paul wrote:
> > ifconfig hme1 ether 0a:00:20:c2:1c:c2 inet 192.168.1.95 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 up
> >
> > doing it all in one statement as Will suggested, and got back:
> > ifconfig: can't set link-level netmask or broadcast
>
> I think ether needs to go after inet.

my guess is that you can't do ether and inet together in one ifconfig
command, this is a "feature". This was brought up on -current about a
month back.

How is the openboot localmacaddr support going ?, because
that would be the clean solution to the problem (imho).

-- 
Sten Spans

There is a crack in everything that's how the light gets in.