hi ya

and some MAC address is in flash eprom... :-)
so you can permanently change to your new mac address...

have fun
alvin
http://www.Linux-Sec.net


On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Paul Robertson wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Marc Sahr wrote:
> 
> > Huh? How can a hard-coded mac address be changed? It's burned into the
> > NIC controller chip, and every single network-attached device has a
> > unique MAC address. I've never heard of being able to change them.
> 
> In Linux:
> 
> ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:00:DE:AD:BE:EF
> 
> Generally, the EEPROM address is read by the driver, so the driver is the
> place to insert the new MAC address.  Solaris is normally an exception
> where you need to do it in the machine firmware- though I'd guess you
> could write a driver that would allow it.  On Win2k, it depends on if the
> driver supports it as to if the appropriate NIC property is changable.
> 

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