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. > _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
