Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 20:17:22 +0300 From: Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ifconfig seems to not accept inet and ether parameters on one line Message-ID: <f2i2n3$mbd$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <1a5ccc3f5f40e0ec06a599a6aad2675e@uni-svishtov.bg> References: <1a5ccc3f5f40e0ec06a599a6aad2675e@uni-svishtov.bg>
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Angelin Lalev wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm running FreeBSD 6.2. and I'm trying in short to change the MAC address of my network interface at boot. > So I wrote something like this in my rc.conf file: > > ifconfig_xl0="inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ether 00:00:11:11:22:22" > > at next boot the interface was not configured at all, so I tried it manually: > > ifconfig xl0 inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ether 00:00:11:11:22:22 'ether' is rather another address family for ifconfig. Try: ifconfig_xl0="inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00" ifconfig_xl0_alias0="ether 00:00:11:11:22:22" -- Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow!
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