>>>>> "Russell" == Russell Senior <[email protected]> writes:

>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> writes:

Keith> I've just spent a fruitless few hours attempting to change the
Keith> MAC address on the ALIX WAN port - the /etc/config/network
Keith> "option macaddr" command doesn't work

Jason> A quick way to change the mac address of an interface is:

Jason> # ifconfig eth0 down # ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55
Jason> # ifconfig eth0 up

Russell> I just tried Jason's incantation and it works on my Alix
Russell> (same board as yours, the three-port Alix.2d3).

I also just tried the /etc/config/network:

config interface wan
        option ifname   eth0
        option macaddr  00:0b:ad:c0:ff:ee
        option proto    dhcp

and that works for me, too.


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