Charles, Luis, Luis.F.Correia wrote:
>Just to add up a little... > >Some drivers/cards accept a MAC address when loading the module. Nice, but that would make it very card-specific... >Also if dhcpclient is used in the external interface, there >are options for specifying the MAC address. > >I think... That can be interesting... I'll check that out. But again, this would not be a "generic" solution. Charles Steinkuehler wrote: >Hmm...it seems to me that network.conf is the wrong place to try to play >with MAC addresses. There's no simple way around the fact that network.conf >doesn't handle dynamically configured interfaces (ie external IF configured >via dhcp). > >What about adding a bit of code to /etc/init.d/modutils? It would be quite >easy to write another "bang" command (like ! mac) that would hard-code the >MAC addy of a particular interface. This would happen when the driver for >that interface is loaded, pretty much guaranteeing any modifications are in >place before any other code tries to use the interface. That sounds very feasable and nice to me... I'll check out the script and try to stir up some code to test the idea. >I still don't like modifying MAC addresses as a long-term solution, but I >recognize it's a handy function to have in some circumstances... Especially at the beginning of a long weekend, when your ISP's support services don't respond, and your network card of the external interface just died... ;-) Robert _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
