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Date:      Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:55:12 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Ali Reza Joudaki <info@anp-co.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dev/em: Link is not up until 2 seconds after "ifconfig up"
Message-ID:  <20040412205511.GA5340@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <000601c41fa4$fed53620$1905a8c0@25>
References:  <000601c41fa4$fed53620$1905a8c0@25>

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On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 01:41:24PM +0430, Ali Reza Joudaki wrote:
> dear sir/madam
> 
> i want to change a hardware mac adress on lan intel 82546eb
> please let me know how we can change this mac adress

ifconfig fpx0 ether 00:11:22:33:44:55

This needs to be done each time you boot.  You can not generally change
the physical address on the board with modern hardware since it's either
in a very small chip on the board or laser cut into the actual
controler silicon.

-- Brooks

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